When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Lily Tretiak, a physician in Kyiv, and her husband took only 20 minutes to make a life-altering choice: to leave the country with their two young children. After travelling through Hungary and spending nine months in Italy with Tretiak’s godmother, the family eventually arrived in Canada via the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) program.
Well, there’s also the fact that she doesn’t know the names of the vast number of medications (I assume that doctors here are expected to know both brand and generic names), and she may be used to different procedures and standards.
To work in Canada as a doctor she would have to undergo significant training just to be effective. Presumably there are few or no spaces for that kind of training in Canadian medical schools. It may also be that training as a nurse will give her the vocabulary and familiarity with the Canadian medical system that will allow her to write the exams and qualify as a doctor.
Yup. I had a co-worker whose wife was a dentist. She worked in another capacity at a dental office until she could pass the recertification exam.
He was caught printing no less than 400 pages of study materials for her with the office printer.
I suspect you were down voted because of your first comment about medications. It’s less important than you may think. Pharmacists are the unsung heroes here, just like how engineers are responsible for making an architect’s pipe dreams structurally possible.