More than two dozen internationally-trained family doctors are now treating patients in Ontario as part of an expedited licensing program that missed its initial target for 2024.
Despite the slower-than-expected uptake in the beginning of the Practice Ready Ontario program, the province now says it's aiming to bring 100 foreign-trained physicians to northern and rural areas by the end of the year.
The Ontario government says the initial target of licensing 50 internationally-trained doctors by the end of 2024 was not met but that has now been rolled into the new target of 100 primary care doctors.