BC quietly employs foreign-trained doctors as equity and care concerns loom

Dozens of foreign-trained doctors are now working under special licenses requiring supervision in BC hospitals, while more are being recruited for deployment as family doctors in urgent care centres, CTV News has learned. Health Minister Adrian Dix confirmed that the province has employed “associate physicians” in acute care, with 120 more positions posted. The president of the Doctors of BC pointed out that other parts of Canada have “clinical associates” who also work under the supervision of physicians, and recognizes the potential pressures and precarity of the jobs.