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December 31, 2019

Licensing Statistics as of December 31, 2019

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.

Licence Type Total Family Medicine All Other
Full Licence 2,287 1,112 1,175
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence 155 58 97
Defined Licence 89 15 74
Academic Licence 72 72
Temporary (Locum) Licence 34 34
Clinical Assistant 26 26
Defined Licence – Fellowship 24 24
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training 21 3 18
Restricted Licence 24 16 8
Defined Licence – Term
Total 2,706 1,204 1,528

Physician Age Distribution

age demographic chart

 

Licensing Statistics for the period October, 2018 to December 31, 2019

  Decrease in Licences Increase in Licences
Family Medicine 146 159
All other 195 183
Total 341 342

In addition, we have the following physicians in training:

Educational Register Assessments Total Training Physicians New Post Graduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training  – 505 138
Postgraduate Practising  – 27 11
Clinical Assessments 24
Total 24 532 149

In addition to physicians in training, we have the following medical students:

Total Medical Students 447