610 CKTB| Training the Away Team On Home Ice: Should Canada Invest in Foreign Doctors Over Canadians?
Jon Liedtke joined The Gene Valaitis Show on Niagara’s 610 CKTB to discuss a controversial Canadian program where Canadian universities’ medical schools, funded by foreign countries (of which Saudi Arabia currently makes up 50%), trains hundreds of international physicians annually who then return home credentialed as Canadian doctors.
While this program generates an estimated millions for the universities – Saudi for example pays $100,000 per trainee – critics argue it’s ethically questionable, given the Saudi regime’s human rights record, and strategically flawed, as Canada already faces a…
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