Registration & Licensing Statistics

Licensing Statistics: 4-Year Overview 2019-2022

This data represents a physician headcount, not a total of full-time equivalent practising physicians. Additional data regarding licensing is available in the College’s annual report, Building Bridges.

Licensing Data as of September 30, 2022

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	2,713	1,145	1,568
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence	–	–	–
Defined Licence	90	9	81
Academic Licence	98	–	97
Temporary (Locum) Licence	8	3	5
Clinical Assistant	26	–	26
Defined Licence – Fellowship	38	–	38
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	22	2	20
Restricted Licence	51	14	37
Defined Licence – Term	–	–	–
Total	3,046	1,173	1,873

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians	New Postgraduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training	–	565	179
Postgraduate Practising	–	31	4
Clincal Assessments	10	–	10
Total	10	596	299

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

335

Licensing Statistics for the period: October 1, 2021, – September 30, 2022

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	79	150
All other	339	391
Total	418	541

Physician Age Distribution

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Registration & Licensing Statistics

Licensing Statistics: 4-Year Overview 2019-2022

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Physician Age Distribution