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Does anyone know anything aout WAAIP. Has anyone partipated in it. Looks like a federal program for IMG's. The website is http://www.waaip.ca/about-us.htm
New Health Canada opportuinity for IMG's - WAAIPl
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While health-care is a provincial issue, I comment on the dichotomy of Ontario working to disassemble these sort of area-specific, numbers-limited extra examinations, and this initiative proposing adding some more as a solution.
My 0.02 anyways, spend accordingly
roo
My 0.02 anyways, spend accordingly
roo
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roo said:
Huh?
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The WAAIP website states the initiative is *funded* by the federal dept of health. It's not a *federal* program per se. The WAAIP is similar to IMG-Ontario.
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"The first phase of the evaluation will be structured assessment (Multiple Choice Questions and OSCE examination) held November 25 and 26, 2005 in Calgary, Alberta.
A maximum of 25 Registrants will be selected to complete a second phase consisting of an eleven-week Clinical Field Assessment in various locales / sites in Western Canada between January and March 2006."
It appears to be for several provinces out west and up north. This sort of licensing procedure is a provincial decision. Federal funds can be used for it, but the provinces have to give the thumbs up and are the guiding forces.
The dichotomy, in my opinion, is that these sort of area-specific (only for certain parts of the country (some territories and provinces), extra-exams (in that it is an extra exam outside of the usual MCEE/MCC) and number-specific ("A maximum of 25 Registrants will be selected to complete a second phase") and extra time spent ("an eleven-week Clinical Field Assessment") that didn't really work well in the past. What happens is that it is most likely to draw the candidates that are not competitive elsewhere, because on a sheer numbers game, competitive people aren't going to stop what they are doing, write a test with only 25 people getting to go on, etc.
Best wishes,
roo
A maximum of 25 Registrants will be selected to complete a second phase consisting of an eleven-week Clinical Field Assessment in various locales / sites in Western Canada between January and March 2006."
It appears to be for several provinces out west and up north. This sort of licensing procedure is a provincial decision. Federal funds can be used for it, but the provinces have to give the thumbs up and are the guiding forces.
The dichotomy, in my opinion, is that these sort of area-specific (only for certain parts of the country (some territories and provinces), extra-exams (in that it is an extra exam outside of the usual MCEE/MCC) and number-specific ("A maximum of 25 Registrants will be selected to complete a second phase") and extra time spent ("an eleven-week Clinical Field Assessment") that didn't really work well in the past. What happens is that it is most likely to draw the candidates that are not competitive elsewhere, because on a sheer numbers game, competitive people aren't going to stop what they are doing, write a test with only 25 people getting to go on, etc.
Best wishes,
roo
