Working in Canada after American fellowship

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If you do a 3 year IM residency in the US followed by lets say a 2 year fellowship in nephro, are you able to accredit yourself in canada or is there a difference in the training duration? Is canadian nephro or rhem 3 years +2 year fellowship or 4 years + 2 year fellowship

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If you do a 3 year IM residency in the US followed by lets say a 2 year fellowship in nephro, are you able to accredit yourself in canada or is there a difference in the training duration? Is canadian nephro or rhem 3 years +2 year fellowship or 4 years + 2 year fellowship

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I'm pretty sure its 3+2. I believe that means your training will be recognized.

What is changing is that Canada's General Internal Medicine is moving from 4 to 5 years which means if you were to do GIM in the states you might not be accredited.
 
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I'm pretty sure its 3+2. I believe that means your training will be recognized.

What is changing is that Canada's General Internal Medicine is moving from 4 to 5 years which means if you were to do GIM in the states you might not be accredited.
Is it still 4 years or already 5? Thank you
 
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Is it still 4 years or already 5? Thank you

Its 5 now, 4 won't get you the General IM specialty certification. You can still graduate in 4 I believe with Core IM but they are trying to phase that out.

However if you do any subspecialty then you only do 3 years of IM.
 
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Curious, how come FP is only 2 years?

Not sure why. It's been that way for a long time. There are more and more FPs who are doing FP +1 programs. You do a 2 year FP residency, then add another year to get skills in OB, ED, or anesthesia. It's a way for the government to improve access in smaller communities. Someone who does FP + 1 year anesthesiology wont be able to get a job in a big city, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Family_Physicians_of_Canada#Enhanced_skills_programs
 
Curious, how come FP is only 2 years?

I think its to encourage more people to become family doctors. In Canada, FPs are true gatekeepers, you can't see a specialist directly. In addition, family doctors can end up working in community EDs or work as hospitalist, low risk obstetrics, surgical assist or low risk anesthesia etc.

By big city though it depends, if you do a 2+1, the only thing you can't actually do is work in a trauma center. You may even be able to work in a trauma center without seeing any trauma but the reality is you probably won't get hired in those centers. But anywhere else you can work and so people do work in big cities with a 2+1, they just don't work in the Level 1 trauma centers.
 
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