September 30, 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	2,320	1,069	1,251
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence	179	74	105
Defined Licence	153	48	105
Academic Licence	77	–	77
Temporary (Locum) Licence	2	1	1
Clinical Assistant	29		29
Defined Licence – Fellowship	11	–	11
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	15	3	12
Restricted Licence	32	21	11
Defined Licence – Term	–	–	–
Total	2,818	1,216	1,602

Physician Age Distribution

Licensing Statistics for the 12-month period: October 2019 – September 2020

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	120	141
All other	124	139
Total	244	280

In addition, we have the following physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians	New Postgraduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training	–	524	152
Postgraduate Practising	–	25	1
Clinical Assessments	6	–	4
Total	6	549	157