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| Learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 02:16 PM
CANADA.... BEWARE !
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| Learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 02:17 PM
FROM CANADIAN BUSINESS MAGAZINE
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| Learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 02:27 PM
THE DETAILS...
Two years ago, Kanwal and Tarvinder Kukreja had it all. Both were successful young doctors: Kanwal was a pediatrician in private practice; Tarvinder, a pathologist, was chief resident at Chandigarh Medical College Hospital in India's Punjab state. In their free time, they worked with an international group of doctors developing standard guidelines for the treatment of asthma. They had a comfortable four-bedroom home and a somewhat pampered three-year old daughter, Gazal, who had their parents' undivided attention when they were able. "But we both felt we had to do something more in life so that we could be at the cutting edge of our professions," says Kanwal, 35."We chose Canada."
Tarvinder completed the requisite immigration forms as the primary family applicant because her speciality, pathology, was on a list of occupations in demand published by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). Just before they got their papers - after a wait of almost two years - an immigration officer made them sign waivers saying they understood they might never practise medicine in Canada. Just a formality, they assumed, seeing as the only reason they'd been accepted in the first place was because they were both physicians.
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| Learner |
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on 05-Aug-03 02:37 PM
Today, they live in a cramped basement apartment in Brampton, Ont., a half-hour's drive northwest of Toronto. And since arriving in October in 1998, they've been struggling to have their credentials recognized by the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) Their graduate and post-graduate degrees- from renowned medical schools where they studied in English with doctors from North America, the UK and Australia- so far mean absolutely nothing in Canada. They've spent their entire life's savings on expensive credential assessments (which equated their education to post graduate work at the University of Toronto) and exams. They are now $9000 in debt-and still no closer to getting licensed then they were when they first arrived.
But still they have to pay the bills. Between them, they applied for more than 300 jobs, from sofa-maker to home-care worker, in the three months after they first stepped off the plane. Either they were too qualified or not qualified enough. Kanwal initially took a job of security guard for $8 an hour, but quit after only four days. "I put on uniform, but I kept thinking myself,'What am I doing here?" he sighs. Money was so tight that the couple considered applying for welfare. Contd....
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| Bhunte |
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on 05-Aug-03 04:11 PM
Learner ji,
Do you expect one to get a Job in Hospital next day one arrives? Do you know how lengthy the process it is to get a medical licence in North America? It is not a big surprise to me. As one of my frens wife here who is a med doc back in some country, worked here in some stores before she passed some medical exams. now she is practicing residency....Correct me if i m wrong.
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| learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 05:06 PM
Bhunte jee, what is residency? I don't get it.
I do know, foreign educated doctors are working as resident care attendant. That is not a medical doctor. It is a six months training course to look after sick and old people at their residence.
In spite of high unemployment rate which was so from the early ninties, they have not stopped bringing 250,000 new immigrants every year. What for? That's my question. What have they done for immigrants except grabbing 3000 C$ from each family. That's a sort of business. Yearly that comes to billions of dollars...
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| Bhunte |
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on 05-Aug-03 05:19 PM
Learner ji,
I believe it is a supervised medical practice in a hospital, and is paid for. Since I m not in medical field i dont know. What i know is that she is a Doctor, gave three different exams, passed it, and got residency.
You may think application fee as a business to Canadian govt. But, how about free medical, education, and other services? Do you know how much would they cost if you value in real monetary value? That may be a burden indeed....
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| Learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 07:27 PM
Bhunte jee, You have to pay insurance of $50 a month. Education is not free. You have got to get either loan or if you have worked for more than six months full time, then employment insurance pays full or some part of your fee. Don't think, everything is free. Nothing is free here except dreams...
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| Learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 07:29 PM
Medical insurance is $108 per family or $50 per person. So, I am repeating again, nothing is free here except dreams...OK?
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 07:48 PM
Still damm cheap med insurance and education....
Here in US you pay $700/mo for medical insurance for a family if not employed and $250 if employer gives u a subsidy; education in public school is free but expect to pay $600/mo if in private school. Medical insurance for a single person is about $230 if unemployed. There must be lotta of beggers in Canada then...
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| Learner |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 08:34 PM
I just wonder why two families returned back home to Kathamandu rather than staying in Canada. They were here as landed immigrant after completing their masters degree in US. It's like hell compared to US - that was their final saying before they departed. So one can guess how the situation of Canada is? In US, you don't have to struggle for survival like here. Here, even getting a survival job is a matter of luck. So, ....
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 05-Aug-03 08:39 PM
Learner,
Oh that sounds terrible. Once I thought settling there. Hmm...I will explore how grave the situation there during my visit there in next summer.
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