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Do any of you have experience with working in Canada? If so how does one get to work in Canada after training in the US?
I have actually looked into this with the understanding that if the ACA is not repealed that in another decade or so Canada/New Zealand/Australia will all be more attractive places to practice than here in the Republic of North Zimbabwe. Canada seems to be the toughest of the three. Their stance is that our residencies are three years and theirs are five so you have to undergo 1-1.5 years of "supervision" at a hospital willing to sponsor you. All of these seem to be in Ontario. There may be some opportunities in the frozen tundra of Manitoba. BC and Alberta look at you and say, "Eh? You want to do what?"
Everything is quite a bit different there, I spoke to a fellow who saw 5-6 widgets an hour. Asked him how, essentially it sounded like they had to do next to no charting (one page, one sided t-sheet equivalent per patient). Course lawyers are nearly extinct under that system as opposed to here.
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I have actually looked into this with the understanding that if the ACA is not repealed that in another decade or so Canada/New Zealand/Australia will all be more attractive places to practice than here in the Republic of North Zimbabwe. Canada seems to be the toughest of the three. Their stance is that our residencies are three years and theirs are five so you have to undergo 1-1.5 years of "supervision" at a hospital willing to sponsor you. All of these seem to be in Ontario. There may be some opportunities in the frozen tundra of Manitoba. BC and Alberta look at you and say, "Eh? You want to do what?"
Everything is quite a bit different there, I spoke to a fellow who saw 5-6 widgets an hour. Asked him how, essentially it sounded like they had to do next to no charting (one page, one sided t-sheet equivalent per patient). Course lawyers are nearly extinct under that system as opposed to here.
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Where I am if you are working on a "defined license" i.e. under supervision you get paid as much as the fellow next to you who is not on a defined license. Once you pass your exam the defined license goes away. When I was moonlighting as a family medicine resident in emerg, I got paid $150.00 per hour. The guy supervising me got $185.00 (the base rate at the time). Generally speaking the Atlantic Provinces in Canada are easier to get into to work than anywhere else, and actually nice places to live generally, No big cities, but if you're not into big cities that's not a problem. And yes, generally for a simple complaint I do a one page chart, dictate notes on the more complicated cases or anyone I admit, and it speeds me up. Other things like our chronic overcrowding slow me down. Cheers,
M
Interesting. Do you have any of the following BS that we have to deal with:
1. Door to doc times pressure by admin (preferably less than 30 minutes)
2. Patient satisfaction
3. Patient complaints for BS nonsense
4. Not able to send away non-emergent patients. (do you have a nurse at the front desk screening out the minor crap so you don't have to see it?)
5. RVU-based system requiring you to see an unsafe amount of patients
I'd like to hear your thoughts, because those things are commonly discussed.