Are you interested to pursue a residency in Canada? Well, it is a challenging task and needs a lot of hard work and preparation to find a match. In this blog, you will get some important tips on how you can successfully match into a top Canadian medical residency program.
In Canada, there are presently approximately 13000 doctors who are not working and trying to get into a residency programme. That is a huge number so of course the competition is tough.
Canada has estimated that they will be short of approximately 44000 doctors by 2028. This is a piece of good news for IMGs. In Canada overall approximately 25% i.e. one in four doctors are IMGs. But there is a huge problem that IMGs can only apply to 300-400 seats every year through CARMS matching which is of course very low. And on top of it, 80% of IMGs do not match.
If we compare this with Canadian Medical Graduates only less than 5% of them do not match into the residency program so that means if you are an IMG you have to work really hard.
Some of the tips you can follow to match into a residency program –