Canadian AMG matching to U.S. Residency!

[FriselSasha]

So Statement of Need rules are changing for people starting residency in 2016:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/hhr-rhs/postgrad-postdoc/cat_b-eng.php

Correct me if I am wrong, but the new rules seems to say that if you start residency in 2016 under category B, you have to apply for another statement of need for fellowship, but now under category C.

Problem is category C requires full Canadian license, which one cannot obtain until after residency. So in effect, these new rules force all Canadians starting U.S. residency in 2016 to return to Canada for licensure. Further, since one's original J-1 would considered to be ended, there is also the 2 year home-residence requirement. In other words, any one intending to do fellowship can expect a 2 year gap after residency?

Thanks for any input.

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[UBC2014]

This applied beggining with those that matched this cycle just last week.

If you do IM on a J1 visa now, you must also do a +1 year (either a chief year or a 1 year fellowship like geriatrics) which will be sponsored in order to get the equivalent length of traniing, and then return to canada to be licensed in General Internal Medicine. Then you are free to return to the US for subspeciality training under the Category C class on a new J1.

This can be bypassed if you went onto an H1B visa. Relatively easy to do in some sensed for FM and IM, and especially if you are a USMD or USDO graduate, since they can use their F1-OPTI extension visa for PGY1, while they then go ahead and write step 3 and their residency to process the paperwork for the H1b. You would then be able to go into any specialty/field you want(or that you are able to match to in the first place) without worrying about what quotas and statement of needs from Health Canada.