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📣 Research Highlight! We are proud to highlight our former director, Dr. André Coleman, who, together with Dr. Mahmood Beheshti, has just published an interesting clinical case in the Canadian Family Physician journal 🙌🏽 It explores chronic cough as a rare side effect of statins . Their work is a clear reflection of the clinical excellence and critical thinking that ITPs bring to the Canadian healthcare system.

ITPO members Dr. Mariana Jardim (Former Vice Chair and now PAR consultant) and Dr. Anjali Menezes have co-authored a powerful new article in the Canadian Family Physician journal that examines the systemic challenges faced by ITPs and calls for urgent reforms to support their integration into Canada's healthcare system.

Pathway to Conditional Licensure for Internationally Trained Physicians via a Practice Ready Assessment: Hospitalist Medicine As Canada’s...

Now Accepting Applications: McMaster-PEI Collaborative Hospitalist Fellowship

As Canada’s hospitals face unprecedented demand from aging, complex patient populations, the PEI-McMaster Collaborative Hospitalist Fellowship delivers a unique, rigorous training pathway for specialized physicians ready to excel in hospital medicine.

We caution against reducing the competence of a doctor to an exam score or the extent to which that exam score surpasses accepted standard.

CBC News reports on physician shortages and barriers foreign-trained physicians face in securing residency training spots.

ITPO is pushing for better licensing pathways and increased residency placements to utilize these skilled professionals.

The shortage of primary care physicians, which contributes to longer wait times in emergency departments and backlogs for specialists

The ITPO team gathered in Calgary on October 25th and 26th for the "Building Collaboration on Policy and Programs: A National Convening of I

Far fewer residency positions available for ITPs compared to CMGs. Open the spots! Adjust assessment criteria to capture ITP strengths!

Read our Chair of Board, Dr. Makini McGuire-Brown's thoughts on the recent proposal by Canadian senators regarding ITPs.

Canada is experiencing a primary care crisis, with 6.5 million people currently lacking access to a family doctor

Internationally trained doctors face barriers to practicing medicine in Canada Canada Tonight host Ginella Massa spoke with the chair of...

Cross Country Checkup with Ian Hanomansing ITPO Chair on Cross Country Check up Cross Country Checkup is Canada's only national phone-in...

Despite health-care ‘crisis,’ internationally-trained doctors, nurses face barriers to work Health worker shortages may be at “crisis”...

ITPO Chair Dr. Makini McGuire-Brown speaks about acknowledging the thousands of ITPs not working as doctors.

According to the Canadian Medical Association 6.5 million Canadians do not have access to primary care and instead have to turn towards...

Executive Summary Practice-Ready Assessment (PRA) programs are one of the licensure pathways that are available in various provinces in...

Expanding Pathways to Licensure for Internationally Trained Physicians in Ontario: How to Get There and Why It Matters Contributing...