Internationally Trained Doctors

• ‘A miracle’: Viewer gifts $20,000 so internationally-trained doctors can get certified in B.C.

  Marina Lousararian and Loicel Aguero are both trained specialists in their home countries, Argentina and Venezuela. But the cost of getting certified in Canada is very high.

  Health

  Feb 10, 2023
  
• They worked as medical specialists in their countries, but they can’t get certified in B.C.

  Last November, the B.C. government announced it is expanding a program that helps internationally educated doctors get licences in B.C, but it's only for family doctors.

  Politics

  Feb 9, 2023
  
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• Step in the right direction but not a remedy, says Okanagan doctor on physician recruitment plan

  The program will place the physicians in rural and urban communities, where physicians are badly needed.

  Canada

  Nov 28, 2022