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	2,820	1,175	1,645
Full Licence (Atlantic Registry)	110	37	73
Defined Licence	81	22	59
Academic Licence	89	–	89
Temporary (Locum) Licence	10	2	8
Clinical Assistant	39	–	39
Defined Licence – Fellowship	35	–	35
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	22	7	15
Restricted Licence	50	13	37
Defined Licence – Term	–	–	–
Total	3,256	1,256	2,000

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians
Postgraduate Training	–	527
Postgraduate Practising	–	56
Clinical Assessments	12	–
Total	12	583

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

411

Licensing Statistics for the period: January 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	60	130
All other	300	524
Total	360	654