| Characteristic | Milestone; no. (%) of graduates | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obtained postgraduate position* | p value | Passed Qualifying Examination Part II† n = 1126 | p value | Obtained specialty designation† n = 889 | p value | ||||
| Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||
| Type of international medical graduate | |||||||||
| Canadian graduate of Western or Caribbean medical school | 430 (20.1) | 219 (4.6) | < 0.001 | 180 (16.0) | 16 (18.2) | 0.3 | 158 (17.8) | 38 (11.7) | 0.01 |
| Canadian graduate of other medical school | 486 (22.7) | 889 (18.6) | 362 (32.1) | 20 (22.7) | 280 (31.5) | 102 (31.4) | |||
| Non-Canadian graduate of Western or Caribbean medical school | 55 (2.6) | 174 (3.6) | 23 (2.0) | 2 (2.3) | 22 (2.5) | 3 (0.9) | |||
| Non-Canadian graduate of other medical school | 1173 (54.7) | 3499 (73.2) | 561 (49.8) | 50 (56.8) | 429 (48.2) | 182 (56.0) | |||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Female | 1107 (51.6) | 2078 (43.5) | < 0.001 | 643 (57.1) | 30 (34.1) | < 0.001 | 515 (57.9) | 158 (48.6) | 0.004 |
| Male | 1037 (48.4) | 2702 (56.5) | 483 (42.9) | 58 (65.9) | 374 (42.1) | 167 (51.4) | |||
| Age | |||||||||
| Younger | 1049 (48.9) | 1280 (26.8) | < 0.001 | 425 (37.7) | 37 (42.0) | 0.4 | 359 (40.4) | 103 (31.7) | 0.006 |
| Older | 1094 (51.0) | 3468 (72.5) | 701 (62.2) | 51 (58.0) | 530 (59.6) | 222 (68.3) | |||
| Unknown | 1 (0.0) | 33 (0.7) | |||||||
| Had skills assessment | |||||||||
| Yes | 743 (34.6) | 1739 (36.4) | 0.2 | 293 (26.0) | 9 (10.2) | 0.001 | 206 (23.2) | 96 (29.5) | 0.02 |
| No | 1401 (65.3) | 3042 (63.6) | 833 (74.0) | 79 (89.8) | 683 (76.8) | 229 (70.5) | |||
| Specialty type | |||||||||
| Family medicine | 880 (41.0) | - | < 0.001 | 817 (72.6) | 35 (39.8) | < 0.001 | 672 (75.6) | 180 (55.4) | < 0.001 |
| Specialist | 1264 (59.0) | - | 309 (27.4) | 53 (60.2) | 217 (24.4) | 145 (44.6) | |||
| No postgraduate position | - | 4781 (100.0) | - | - | |||||
| First rank | |||||||||
| Resident | - | - | - | 1071 (95.1) | 52 (59.1) | < 0.001 | 865 (97.3) | 258 (79.4) | < 0.001 |
| Fellow | - | - | 55 (4.9) | 36 (40.9) | 24 (2.7) | 67 (20.6) | |||
*Passed Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I between 2005 and 2010.
†First entered family medicine postgraduate program between 2005 and 2009 or specialty postgraduate program in 2005 or 2006.