December 31, 2020

This data represents a physician headcount, not a total of full-time equivalent practising physicians.

Upon receipt of all required documents, a physician’s licence is typically approved in two to three days.

License Type	Total	Family Medicine	All Other
Full Licence	2,361	1,095	1,266
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence	202	85	117
Defined Licence	106	23	83
Academic Licence	79	–	79
Temporary (Locum) Licence	7	2	5
Clinical Assistant	29		29
Defined Licence – Fellowship	26	–	26
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	20	3	17
Restricted Licence	33	22	11
Defined Licence – Term	2	1	1
Total	2,865	1,231	1,634

Physician Age Distribution

Licensing Statistics for the period: October 2019 – December 2020

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	173	164
All other	234	216
Total	407	380

In addition, we have the following physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians	New Postgraduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training	–	513	154
Postgraduate Practising	–	24	1
Clinical Assessments	1	–	4
Total	1	537	155