Bhimji Arif
Medicentres Canada.
Healthc Pap. 2010;10(2):46-9; discussion 51-5. doi: 10.12927/hcpap.2010.21800.
The influx of foreign medical graduates into Canada presents both opportunity and challenges. The opportunity to increase the number of suitably and appropriately qualified providers to meet the demands of an aging and increasingly infirm population is clear. Some of the pressures on the health system could be met by integrating these graduates. However, identifying those with the necessary knowledge and skills to function at the same standard as Canadian graduates is challenging because the training and skills of many graduates is substandard requiring extensive rehabilitation. Furthermore there is a substantial deficiency of an evaluation/licensing pathway and funding for such an initiative.
外国医学毕业生涌入加拿大既带来了机遇，也带来了挑战。增加具备适当资质的医疗服务提供者数量以满足老龄化且日益体弱人群的需求，这一机遇是显而易见的。整合这些毕业生有助于缓解医疗系统面临的一些压力。然而，要识别出那些具备与加拿大毕业生同等水平的必要知识和技能的人具有挑战性，因为许多毕业生的培训和技能水平不达标准，需要大量的提升。此外，对于这样一项举措，评估/许可途径和资金存在严重不足。
