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September 30, 2019

This data represents a physician head count, 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 2,354 1,207 1,147
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence 160 58 102
Defined Licence 98 17 81
Academic Licence 73 73
Temporary (Locum) Licence 4 4
Clinical Assistant 29 1 27
Defined Licence – Fellowship 29 29
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training 23 23
Restricted Licence 22 16 6
Defined Licence – Term 0
Total 2,791 1,299 1,492

Physician Age Distribution

 

Licensing Statistics for the period October, 2018 to September 30, 2019

  Decrease in Licences Increase in Licences
Family Medicine 94 193
All other 118 212
Total 212 405

In addition, we have the following physicians in training:

Educational Register Assessments Total Training Physicians New Post Graduate Licences issued
Postgraduate Training  – 522 152
Postgraduate Practising  – 26 1
Clinical Assessments 8
Total 8 548 153

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

Total Medical Students 437