BCguy: Prospects for Nursing Profession in Canada for an Foreign Trained MD

[mbomuluh]

Hello BCguy,
I am a foreign trained Medical Doctor from Africa getting ready to apply for the FSW Program to immigrate to Canada. I was wondering how to get into the Nursing Profession since I am aware that the Licencing for MDs is tedious and long. I am writing in relation to the following I read from this site:

I wanted to weigh in on the debate,2 Filipina Doctors who are now working in the Sunshine Coast Area of B.C as nurses,Life in Philippines Combined Household income of about 1,200$ a month,1 second hand 6 year old car,crowded 50 sqm condo. Nurses in Sunshine Combined Income of 9,000$ Monthly,2 cars plus SUV,4 Bedroom Home on half acre lot,Vacations, and planning to buy a a boat.Now tell me it was wrong for them to give up  being doctors in the Philippines and become nurses in BC.They are so thankful that they are living in a beautiful place and SUPERIOR quality of life.I helped them get the position with Coastal Health and as people who have dealt with me off board can confirm,I work for the BC goverment helping people in my job and Yes a lower skill job in Canada is preferable to a higher skilled job in the third world,Remember a Doctor in Cuba gets about 100$ a MONTH,So telling a Cuban Doctor that becoming a 2000$ per month security guard is a bad choice is not exactly acceptable to the Doctor.He will become a Security guard in a Heartbeat   

Thank you for your assistance!

[jtob]

you can not be a nurse anywhere in the world without a nursing education, MD's are not qualified to work as a nurse.
those filipino MD's who are working in canada as nurses took up nursing as a second course. i don't know how it is in africa, but in the philippines a doctor needs to take a 2 year nursing course to be a nurse.