IMG Fairness Commissioner Jean Augustine

Fairness Commissioner Jean Augustine: Augustine on Wednesday took particular exceptions to an overly rosy and glowing portrait in a report earlier this week by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario bragging that a record number of international medical graduates IMG were either being accepted into residency programs or being certified to open up their own practices, according to The Star. According to 2011 StatsCan figures, she said there are 6,540 IMGs living in Ontario, many of whom are left without a hope of ever practicing medicine in the province and Ontarios Fairness Commissioner Jean Augustine says things are anything but rosy for foreign-trained doctors trying to break into Ontario. Augustine said a further look at the numbers show that a small percentage of foreign-trained doctors are being accepted into 200 government-funded IMG residency positions. Instead, many are being given to Canadians who have trained offshore and want to return to Ontario, which, she says, belies the original intent of the program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.