Adding 100 New Family Doctors in Rural and Northern Communities

December 5, 2024

The government is continuing to create new pathways to connect more people to primary care in the province by breaking down barriers for 100 internationally trained family physicians to practice medicine in a rural or northern community in 2025. Through the Practice Ready Ontario program, foreign-trained doctors can become licensed more quickly and connect an additional 120,000 people to care, where and when they need it.

The province launched the Practice Ready Ontario in 2023 to bring more internationally trained physicians into Ontario’s health care workforce faster by removing the requirement to complete unnecessary re-education programs. Starting in 2025, up to 100 internationally trained physicians with training in family medicine who have completed their field assessment will begin practising as a family doctor in northern and rural communities.

Members who will have a physician working in their riding that successfully completed the Practice Ready Ontario Program with the first cohort have already been notified and are encouraged to share this good news through a local announcement if they haven’t done so already.   

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En: New Family Doctors

Fr: Nouveaux médecins de famille