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April 26 | English | 1 hour

Welcoming Internationally Educated Nurses into the Canadian Health Care Sector: Recommendations for Change 

N4 has published a recommendation report designed to serve as roadmap to integrate and retain internationally educated nurses (IENs), without sacrificing Canadian standards for nurse credentialling and licensing, which support patient safety and quality of care. 

A working group of...

April 19 | English | 1 hour

Part of the Solution: Recommendations for Welcoming Internationally Trained Physicians into Canada’s Health Care Sector

Despite being highly skilled and experienced, less than half of Internationally Trained Physicians (ITPs) who immigrate to Canada are practicing in their profession. The process for an ITP to become licensed is complex, expensive, and province-specific, fraught with systemic barriers and bias. This webinar presents concrete and actionable...

March 8 | 1 hour | English

Tapping Canada’s Hidden Healthcare Talent Pool: Tips and Tools to Recruit and Retain International Experience

Based on a 2022 pan-Canadian outreach with healthcare stakeholders, N4 has developed an Employer Resource Toolkit designed to optimize the integration of Canadian internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) into the workforce. This session will provide healthcare employers...

N4's Re-Connect Event was held on February 22 to share N4's recently published report: ““A Missing Part of Me:” A Pan-Canadian Report on the Licensure of Internationally Educated Health Professionals.” This report explores the barriers that internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) experience on their path to licensure in Canada, as well as some facilitating factors. The research is the result of individual and organization stakeholder visits that N4 conducted in 2022 and provides a...

Citizenship and Immigration Canada 

This training aims to increase awareness of unconscious bias so that panel members and their staff can provide a fair and inclusive service to clients of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada in the context of the immigration medical examination.

IRCC...

Office of the Fairness Commissioner · Toronto, ON

This webinar discusses recent initiatives led by the Office of the Fairness Commissioner (OFC) in Ontario to achieve better outcomes for applicants and current efforts underway...

cma.ca · Ottawa, ON

Canada is experiencing a physician shortage. This has led to a health human resource crisis across the country, where each province’s healthcare systems are working to find solutions along with the Canadian Medical Association. Owen Adams, Senior Advisor to the CEO of the Canadian...

pharmacy.utoronto.ca · Toronto, ON

This webinar, presented by Dr. Zubin Austin of the University of Toronto, will provide a historical context from an Ontario perspective of the work that has occurred to assist in Internationally Trained Medical Graduates (IMG) and Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN)...

itpo.ca · Petawawa, ON

This webinar will introduce ITPO (Internationally Trained Physicians of Ontario) and explore its two main arms; the advocacy arm and the professional resources arm. You will learn about who can access ITPO resources and what we are doing to improve routes to licensure for all...

On June 6, 2022, IRCC announced additional funding for N4 during a press conference at CHEO, where N4 is hosted. This funding will leverage N4 to address the barriers for Internationally Educated Health Professionals (IEHPs) in...