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N4 Recommendation Reports
Part of the Solution: Recommendations for Welcoming Internationally Trained Physicians into Canada’s Health Care Sector
The future of health care requires innovative, sustainable solutions to the HHR crisis that Canada’s health care system is currently facing. N4’s recommendations provide a roadmap to successfully integrate and retain ITPs into the Canadian health care workforce, without sacrificing Canadian standards for physician credentialling and licensing, which support patient safety and quality of care.
Welcoming Internationally Educated Nurses into Canadian Health Care: Recommendations for Change
N4 has published a recommendation report designed to serve as roadmap to integrate and retain internationally educated nurses (IENs), without sacrificing Canadian standards for nurse credentialling and licensing, which support patient safety and quality of care. A working group of pan-Canadian stakeholders came together to draft the recommendations, and IENs validated and informed the creation of the work by sharing valuable lived experience.
New Members
Health and social service professionals across Canada join N4 to ensure equity for our newcomers. Here's some of the cities where our newest members have joined from.
Brandon, MB · Brantford, ON ·Calgary, AB · Charlottetown, PEI · Chatham, ON · Colwood, BC · Edmundston, NB · Hearst, ON · Kitchener, ON · Lethbridge, AB · Midhurst, ON · Moncton, NB · Montreal, QC · New Westminster, BC · North York, ON · Oakville, ON · Ottawa, ON · Penticton, BC · Peterborough, ON · Portage la Prairie, MB · Regina, SK · Richmond, BC · Saint John, NB · Sault Ste. Marie, ON · Scarborough, ON · Selkirk, MB · Sudbury, ON · Toronto, ON · Vancouver, BC · Victoria, BC · Winnipeg, MB
Featured Webinar
Sustainable Health Resources and Other Key Information for Newcomers
Organizations such as Our Kids Health (through Unity Health), About Kids Health (through Sick Kids), and Refugee613 are three such organizations that collect, summarize, and disseminate information to help newcomer populations through informative resources in multiple languages. From distributing quickly developing news on the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent vaccines to accessing specific services within their community, this panel discussion will present from key subject matter experts answers to many questions on development and maintaining reliable and easy to understand information to newcomers across Canada.
Speakers: Fazul Rahim, Communications Manager, Refugee613 · Sean Schurr, Director, AboutKidsHealth & Digital Learning Solutions, Sick Kids · Dr. Rageen Rajendram, Developmental Paediatrics Fellow, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Toronto
May 10 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Upcoming Webinars
May 10 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Sustainable Health Resources and Information for Newcomers
Speakers: Fazul Rahim, Communications Manager, Refugee613 · Sean Schurr, Director, AboutKidsHealth & Digital Learning Solutions, Sick Kids · Dr. Rageen Rajendram, Developmental Paediatrics Fellow, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Toronto
Register NowMay 31 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Assessment as Information: A Solutions Perspective on Assessments
Speakers: Karen Coetzee, Director, Research & Analysis, Touchstone Institute, Toronto, ON · Alex Tran, Director, Exam Administration · Luxshi Amirthalingam, Data Analyst/Coordinator, Touchstone Institute, Toronto, ON
Register NowJune 21 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Culture is Healing: Exploring Root Causes of Indigenous Health Inequity
Speakers: Dr. Sarah Funnell, Founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous Health Research and Education and Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Register Now
Featured Member
Dr. Tanya Lentz, R. Psych. is a registered psychologist in Newfoundland and Labrador and in the Northwest Territories, with over 20 years of experience providing care for diverse populations, including newcomers. Dr. Lentz is a valued member of the N4 Advisory Committee and serves as an N4 subject matter expert where she shares her expertise with the wider N4 community through webinars and trainings on topics ranging from the parentification of newcomer children and youth to professional boundaries for newcomer-serving professionals.
Featured Organization
At Refugee 613, we explore new ways to create and deliver settlement information and engage communities in refugee welcome. We’re always creating new resources to support newcomers and you, and we’re always open to collaborating.
Our Latest Organizational Partnerships
- University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
- Shapiro Foundation, Nova Scotia
- Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Sudbury, ON
- Health Standards Organization, Ottawa, ON
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia, Bedford, NS
N4 meets regularly with stakeholder organizations to ensure we support their efforts to create equity for newcomers.
Book a virtual meeting with N4.
Beyond Training: How to Incorporate Equity in Hiring Processes to Welcome Newcomers into the Workforce
Over the next three years, Canada will welcome 1.45 million newcomers, primarily in the skilled immigrant class. Newcomers bring diverse skills and experience and cultural and linguistic talents with them into the workforce. However, systemic barriers and bias within job postings and interview processes create unfair disadvantages for newcomers preventing entry into the workforce. This webinar will provide guidance to organizations seeking to welcome newcomers into their workforce by applying an inclusion and equity lens.
Speaker: Ann Curry-Stevens, Associate Professor, Wilfred Laurier University
Resources
What Members Say About N4
"I am absolutely sure that this program will help in my professional growth, because I have qualified mentors and a program that gives a broader view from the inside of the Canadian health care system."
Mykola Melnik, Internationally Trained Physician (ITP) Participant in the N4/SPU IEHPs Online Program
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News Feed
CBC: Thousands of Federal Public Servants Across Country Begin Strike
More than 155,000 federal public servants are on strike after the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)... Read MoreIRCC: 2022 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration
As Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, I am pleased to present the 2022 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration.... Read MoreIRCC: Canada Marks Significant Milestone, Welcoming over 30,000 Vulnerable Afghans
Communities across Canada continue to welcome Afghans and are helping them settle in to their new homes... Read MoreGovernment of Canada: Budget 2023
The 2023 federal budget is the government’s plan to build a stronger, more sustainable, and more secure Canadian economy—for everyone... Read More
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