Province also celebrating recruitment of 1,001 new family doctors in 2 years

Osborne says the province is changing its licensing rules so U.S.-trained doctors can begin practising in B.C. right away, without any need for further assessment, exams or training.

She said there will be a similar scale-back of the barriers facing U.S.-trained nurses and that a marketing campaign will be unveiled in Washington, Oregon and California within the next few months.

  • paperBark@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    10 hours ago

    Glad they are only targeting west coast states with the ad campaign so that hopefully newcomers have similar ideals to BC already.

    In other words, glad they aren’t recruiting in Florida.

  • PortMoodyGuy@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    This is a brilliant move and good for everyone. It should inject some much needed personnel into our system very quickly and it helps those same people to leave the United States which may not be so welcoming anymore.