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Licensing Data as of December 31, 2021
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 |
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Full Licence | 2,432 | 1,139 | 1,293 |
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence | 214 | 83 | 131 |
Defined Licence | 83 | 12 | 71 |
Academic Licence | 94 | – | 94 |
Temporary (Locum) Licence | 8 | 3 | 5 |
Clinical Assistant | 28 | 26 | 2 |
Defined Licence – Fellowship | 30 | 25 | 5 |
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training | 27 | 3 | 24 |
Restricted Licence | 44 | 29 | 15 |
Defined Licence – Term | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 2,961 | 1,320 | 1,641 |
Physicians in training:
Educational Register | Assessments | Total Training Physicians | New Postgraduate Licences Issued |
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Postgraduate Training | – | 516 | 156 |
Postgraduate Practising | – | 36 | 3 |
Clinical Assessments | 5 | – | 5 |
Total | 5 | 552 | 164 |
Medical students:
Total Medical Students | 358 |
Licensing Statistics for the period: October 2020 – December 2021
| Decrease in Licences | Increase in Licences |
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Family Medicine | 321 | 243 |
All other | 278 | 228 |
Total | 599 | 471 |
Physician Age Distribution
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