Registration & Licensing Statistics

Licensing Statistics: 3-Year Overview 2019-2021

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.

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	2,335	1,075	1,260
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence	192	75	117
Defined Licence	90	24	66
Academic Licence	92	–	92
Temporary (Locum) Licence	8	3	5
Clinical Assistant	28	26	2
Defined Licence – Fellowship	21	19	2
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	18	4	14
Restricted Licence	42	31	11
Defined Licence – Term	2	0	2
Total	2,828	1,224	1,571

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians	New Postgraduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training	–	446	141
Postgraduate Practising	–	36	3
Clincal Assessments	4	–	4
Total	4	482	148

Total Medical Students

360