Registration & Licensing Statistics

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	2,718	1,161	1,557
Full Licence (Atlantic Registry)	60	18	42
Defined Licence	58	18	40
Academic Licence	84	–	84
Temporary (Locum) Licence	17	6	11
Clinical Assistant	34	–	34
Defined Licence – Fellowship	33	–	33
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	13	2	11
Restricted Licence	50	25	25
Defined Licence – Term	–	–	–
Total	3,067	1,230	1,837

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians
Postgraduate Training	–	533
Postgraduate Practising	–	45
Clincal Assessments	6	–
Total	6	578

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

349

Licensing Statistics for the period: April 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	121	180
All other	497	446
Total	618	626