B.C.'s remedy for bringing more foreign-trained doctors into the medical profession has been delayed, sidelining potential candidates and prolonging pressure on the province's health system, advocates say.

A group of internationally trained physicians and medical graduates have taken their fight against what they call systemic racism in B.C.'s residency program to the province's human rights tribunal.

The proposed changes would create a new registration class called 'associate physician,' who would have to work under the supervision of a fully-registered doctor.