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 December 31, 2021

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	2,432	1,139	1,293
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence	214	83	131
Defined Licence	83	12	71
Academic Licence	94	–	94
Temporary (Locum) Licence	8	3	5
Clinical Assistant	28	26	2
Defined Licence – Fellowship	30	25	5
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	27	3	24
Restricted Licence	44	29	15
Defined Licence – Term	1	0	1
Total	2,961	1,320	1,641

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians	New Postgraduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training	–	516	156
Postgraduate Practising	–	36	3
Clincal Assessments	5	–	5
Total	5	552	164

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

358

Licensing Statistics for the period: October 2020 – December 2021

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	321	243
All other	278	228
Total	599	471

Registration & Licensing Statistics

Licensing Statistics: 4-Year Overview 2019-2022

2021 Statistics

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Physician Age Distribution