Licensing Data as of September 30, 2023

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	2,810	1,173	1,637
Full Licence (Atlantic Registry)	110	37	73
Defined Licence	79	22	57
Academic Licence	88	–	88
Temporary (Locum) Licence	10	2	8
Clinical Assistant	39	–	39
Defined Licence – Fellowship	34	–	34
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	22	7	15
Restricted Licence	50	13	37
Defined Licence – Term	–	–	–
Total	3,242	1,254	1,988

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians
Postgraduate Training	–	565
Postgraduate Practising	–	41
Clinical Assessments	9	–
Total	9	606

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

307

Licensing Statistics for the period: July 1, 2022 – September 30, 2023

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	97	220
All other	493	738
Total	590	958