Ontario Adding 100 New Family Doctors in Rural and Northern Communities

• Our government is continuing to create new pathways to connect more people to primary care in the province by breaking down barriers for 100 internationally trained family physicians to practice medicine in a rural or northern community in 2025.

• Through the Practice Ready Ontario program, foreign-trained doctors can become licensed more quickly and connect an additional 120,000 people to care, where and when they need it.

• The new Practice Ready Ontario program builds on the considerable investments our government is making to close the gap for the remaining 10 per cent of people who want to connect to a primary care provider, including increasing the number of primary health care teams and making the largest expansion of medical schools in over a decade.

• Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, our government continues to take bold and decisive action to grow the province’s highly-skilled health care workforce and ensure people and their families have access to high-quality care closer to home for generations to come.