Registration & Licensing Statistics

This data represents a physician headcount, not a total of full-time equivalent practising physicians.

Upon receipt of all required documents, a physician’s licence is typically approved in two to three days.

License Type	Total	Family Medicine	All Other
Full Licence	2,806	1,165	1,641
Full Licence (Atlantic Registry)	138	54	84
Defined Licence	62	16	46
Academic Licence	77	–	77
Temporary (Locum) Licence	1	–	1
Clinical Assistant	45	–	45
Defined Licence – Fellowship	38	–	38
Full Licence – Postgraduate Training	21	6	15
Restricted Licence	83	19	64
Defined Licence – Term	–	–	–
Total	3,271	1,260	2,011

Physicians in training:

Educational Register	Assessments	Total Training Physicians
Postgraduate Training	–	543
Postgraduate Practising	–	50
Clinical Assessments	1	–
Total	1	593

Medical students:

Total Medical Students

411

Licensing Statistics for the period: October 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023

	Decrease in Licences	Increase in Licences
Family Medicine	98	169
All other	426	525
Total	524	694