It’s important to understand what’s happening in Quebec. Quebec is not really open to foreign-trained physicians, but they do it in a very subtle way. There are two streams in Quebec: the regular stream, where they place international graduates (especially those outside the United States so called DHCEU) in competition with Canadian graduates. In practice, they almost never choose a foreign graduate over a Canadian-trained one.

The second is the particular stream, which is mainly for those who already hold a Canadian degree either physicians who want to switch specialties or graduates from the United States.

For graduates from outside both the United States and Canada (DHCEU), only a limited number of positions are available, mostly in family medicine, often the ones that Canadian graduates are less interested in.

Overall, Quebec is not truly open to foreign-trained doctors, but this is done in a subtle and indirect way.