Madhur Kuckreja, an internal medicine physician who has been practising in Boston for three years, was trained at St. George’s University, a Caribbean international medical school, before doing a residency at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Vancouver Sun, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
But Kuckreja had been out of medical school and working as an outpatient primary care internist for three years when he applied.Article content Since 2015, 175 international medical graduates have completed the Practice Ready assessment program — an average of 25 per year.“The college’s role in health human resourcing is to ensure that all who apply to practise medicine in B.C. meet the necessary requirements and have the appropriate qualifications, regardless of where they graduated from medical school,” the statement said. “The college maintains robust standards and requirements for registration and licensure so that B.C.
She attended Jahural Islam Medical College in Dhaka, and when she came to B.C. started applying to Canadian residency programs. Many of the programs give priority to in-province applicants, so she’s since focused only on applying to UBC, which requires applicants to complete a series of standardized assessments.
“If you say that our certificate is not comparable to the Canadian system, then OK train us,” she said. “Let us in the residency, then we will train and be up to your standard. We are not saying, ‘just give me the licence.’Article content
I have no problem with the medical profession working on our behalf to maintain standards. If foreign doctors need to pass a test, they must just accept it. That is in my best interests.
St. George’s in the Caribbean is far from “Ivy League” - that’s laughable.
Not cool