qualifications are way different...
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Like I said, since April, about 2 dozen nurses have arrived on Vancouver Island with fresh Canadian credentials and jobs, and about 8-10 US doctors, and an unknown number of other health professionals.

And that is just for Vancouver Island, not the rest of BC or Canada.

Normally the process take 18-24 months- BC is serious about expediting the entry of healthcare professionals to Canada, and Carney’s feds are just beginning to join in.

If you are a US trained and credentialed doc wanting to come to Canada, you should check out the resources at healthcareinfusion.org . There is a discord channel with people who have gone through the process and ready to share their knowledge.

She was trained and licensed in California, with a BS in microbiology(BC only requires a 3 year diploma) had 27 years of experience and was section head of hematology and then blood bank.

The BC credentialing body still made her take almost three years of distance learning coursework , mostly in histology, and then finally allowed her to take their licensing exam, at a cost of thousands of dollars. She passed, of course, then worked in the lab for another 3-4 years before retiring when COVID hit.

That was 12 years ago- supposedly, the BC government is working with the credentialing bodies to streamline the process.

I encourage you to use the resources at the links I provided to get up to date current information.

techs and rubber stamp the license.. They needed the warm bodies to run the machines... If I recall they were pretty good at what they did. Way better patient care...Bed pan? no problem..
Blood? where is the towels..
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Technologists don’t do bed pans, they look at cells under microscopes or prepare samples for analysis.

My wife was licensed as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist.

If I recall Lab tech's only have patient contact with blood draw and when collect body fluids..Nurses do bed pans but BSRN's don't... Mgr don't and for sure scientists don't.
I can't see Neil deGrasse Tyson doing bed pans...
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CLS’s perform the actual medical tests.

We can now get our credentials acknowledged by MCC and then get a full, unrestricted licence in most provinces.