And of course there is an associated visa processing fee. Otherwise, the clinical fellow will have to fulfil all of the other listed demands. A personal medical examination is a requirement of Canadian immigration and it demands that the applicant receive a physical examination by a physician recognized by the local Canadian Consulate. In addition one must present proof of a normal chest radiograph. On average it takes four months to process so that the applicant once having completed all of the other requirements is still not allowed to enter Canada until those requirements and the medical approval have been received by their local Canadian Consulate.
Incomplete documentation is the commonest reason which delays an applicant's arrival on the job.
Within the Department of Surgery, the individual program directors or hospital division heads can certainly grease the wheels by collecting all of the above documentation in their own offices and then submitting the completed package to Tess Weber in the Department of Surgery. If that parcel is complete then the subsequent processing through the university and the Ministry of Health can be carried out expeditiously in a few weeks, and finally, the respective Canadian consulate identified. There is no predictable dynamic to all this. Hence, if one wishes to confirm a July 1st appointment, the energy for that must begin at least in the October preceding. Anne Marie has become an icon for UofT and her relationships with individual IMGs.