WINNIPEG The University of Manitoba announced on Monday that it is creating a new resource hub to help internationally trained health-care professionals to work in Manitoba. The Government of Canada’s Foreign Credential Recognition Program is providing more than $735,000 to the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences to create the Access Hub for Internationally Educated Health Professionals. “It’s really a way of helping those health professionals who’ve attained their training and certifications outside of Canada get into the health-care environment in Manitoba,” said Natalie MacLeod Schroeder, director of the hub. “We all know there are long processes of certifications that everyone has to go through and for people trained outside of Canada that can be a complicated process to get through. They don’t have the same access to resources as those who are Canadians, just because they haven’t gone through our systems. So this hub is really trying to get a group of
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 5:50 PM CT | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
The University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences has received more than $735,000 to help 400-500 internationally trained health professionals find work in their fields.(Bryce Hoye/CBC)
The University of Manitoba is creating a program to help internationally-trained health professionals find work in Manitoba .
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new Access Hub for Internationally Educated Health Professionals will work collaboratively with regulatory bodies for health professionals, health-care employers and university health science programs to remove barriers foreign trained health professionals face in accessing employment in Manitoba. This central hub will help highly-skilled newcomers navigate all the requirements to earn their licences, get registered in their professions and enter the Manitoba workforce faster than they typically do now, Hub director Natalie MacLeod Schroeder said in the release.