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.

Licensing Data as of September 30, 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	2,431	1,130	1,301
Full Licence Non-Resident Licence	201	79	122
Defined Licence	86	18	68
Academic Licence	93	–	93
Temporary (Locum) Licence	13	10	3
Clinical Assistant	28	26	2
Defined Licence – Fellowship	32	27	5
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	26	2	24
Restricted Licence	42	30	12
Defined Licence – Term	2	0	2
Total	2,952	1,322	1,630

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians	New Postgraduate Licences Issued
Postgraduate Training	–	533	157
Postgraduate Practising	–	31	2
Clincal Assessments	6	–	6
Total	6	564	165

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

361

Licensing Statistics for the period: October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	161	198
All other	151	206
Total	312	404

Registration & Licensing Statistics

Licensing Statistics: 3-Year Overview 2019-2021

2021 Statistics

2020 Statistics

2019 Statistics

2018 Statistics

Physician Age Distribution