Returning to Canada for a Family Medicine residency

[palmpalm]

Hi all,

Everyone here was so helpful when I asked questions about LOCs so I'm going to ask some more questions, this time about residency. I'm going to medical school at Tel Aviv University in Israel. I am a Canadian and wish to come back to Ontario in 4 years and do a family medicine residency here.

How difficult is it to get a FM residency after attending a foreign medical school? How is the process, if at all, different from applying as a grad of a Canadian school? Also, does being from a foreign school have any effect on my eligability to apply, after my FM training, to the one year emergency medicine training in order to have the CCFP(EM) certification?

Thanks.

[andros]

Hi there,

you should probably refer to the CaRMS website for information on the residency match as an IMG.

www.carms.ca

I think family med is probably the easiest residency to match to as an IMG.

Best of luck :)

[palmpalm]

bump.. anyone, please? I've read the CARMS materials but I am looking for advic base don experience and knowledge that you all might have. :-)