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The Statistics Canada survey on people and communities also found victims of discrimination who have stronger ties with family and friends had a more positive outlook toward other Canadians and society, and were more hopeful about the future.
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A recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling allows a small group of internationally trained doctors to resume a lengthy human rights complaint against what they say is a discriminatory and racist residency program. Last month, Justice Matthew Kirchner ruled that the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal erred in throwing out the complaint by Dr. Navid Pooyan and two others over a missed deadline by their lawyer. First launched in 2020, the complaint hinges on the two separate paths that the Ministry of Health and UBC have designated for residency slots, with the majority of these coveted placements going to domestic students and Canadians trained in the U.S., while a smaller number go to Canadian citizens and permanent residents who were trained overseas. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Additionally, international graduates can get residency positions in only four of 29 specialties, primarily those in family medicine. 'There are doctors that are perfectly qualified to pass all the exams and couldn't even get into the system,' said Pooyan, one of the complainants and the founder of the Papillon Bleu Medical Aesthetic Centre in Port Moody. Pooyan says the barriers for international graduates are contributing to the doctor shortage because there are hundreds of trained doctors in B.C. who can't practice because they can't get a residency slot. These doctors have completed their training and passed all exams but are stuck performing minimum wage jobs. 'One of our complainants is a gastroenterologist who is happy to work as a family doctor here. He passed all the exams, but he couldn't get in, so he had to return to Iran otherwise he couldn't continue his profession,' he said. Pooyan said he is one of the lucky few who got a residency slot, but was required to sign a Return of Service contract, which mandates he work in a rural community such as Chetwynd or Williams Lake for at least two years. Pooyan broke his contract in 2019 and is now locked in a separate legal battle with the Ministry of Health. The case has been stayed, but could go to arbitration. Pooyan understands why B.C. wants newly graduated doctors to fill vacancies in rural communities, but says it's wrong to only request that of international graduates while domestic students are able to choose a community in which to work. 'My problem was that, first of all, this is discrimination. The Canadian graduates don't go, it's just a foreign graduate,' he said. 'Second is that, why don't you want to do it in a more sustainable way? You can do it in a community and serve five, 10 years or 20 years, other than just going for two years and trying to get out of it as fast as possible, and then patients get stranded again.' Rosemary Pawliuk, a retired lawyer and president of the Society for Canadians Studying Medicine Abroad, said the problem goes back to 1993 when Canadian health ministries were concerned an increase in the number of doctors would lead to an explosion in health-care costs. She said the current residency system was designed to keep the number of slots low and cap the number of physicians while also ensuring all domestic graduates have the opportunity to practice in their chosen field. 'Just think about this logically, if every year you are shortchanging the supply compared to the demand, particularly when there's growing demand, where are you going to end up? You're going to end up exactly where we ended up, with a dire physician shortage,' said Pawliuk. 'Don't get me wrong, the ministry is trying to get more doctors. They are holding on to these barriers because they're afraid if we start advancing doctors on the basis of individual merits, then there are going to be graduates of Canadian medical schools who go unemployed, and that's going to be politically unacceptable.' Health Minister Josie Osborne said Thursday that she couldn't address this as the case is before the courts but cited improvements, which include streamlining the process for doctors from the U.S. and U.K., and reducing discrimination through the Health Professions and Occupations Act, passed in 2022. 'We are working with the College of B.C. Physicians and Surgeons around the bylaw changes that are necessary to streamline and speed up that credential recognition,' said Osborne. 'Of course, it's vitally important that we protect the public interest. That is why we have the systems that we do.' The B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons said in a statement Thursday it is working to reduce barriers for international graduates from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Switzerland, the U.K. and Ireland. UBC didn't respond to a request for comment by deadline.
