I have very little familiarity with UK degrees, so I'm not the best person to advise you.
However, I think there might be a couple of options you could pursue.
To the best of my understanding, people can become licensed as PAs via the PACC if they complete the PA Integration Program in Ontario. This would enable you to work as a PA (physician's assistant) in Ontario.
This is the
link - you may want to call them to ask about this opportunity.
If you haven't already, call
Health Force Ontario's IMG Access Centre and see what they have to say. If you are living in Ontario, they offer help with
medical licensing, finding employment in other fields, and education.
To work in Quebec (in the context of health care) you need to be fluent in French, so I'm assuming that you are. In that case, you may want to look into New Brunswick, Quebec's neighbour to the east. This province is perennially underserved, and if you could communicate in French and English you'd probably be a catch as a family doctor - they might be willing to bend some rules for you. Contact them
here.
Quebec has it's own system of licensing and exams (it operates a lot like it's own country), which I, not speaking any French, know nothing about. But this is the link to their
information page.
You may also want to consider other perennially underserved/rural locations, since these health authorities tend to be more willing to work with you to get you licensed (licensing is controlled by the provinces, and in general the more desperate a province is for family docs, the looser its licensing requirements will be). Try
Newfoundland; as I understand it they have recruited a fair number of IMGs.
Lastly, there are a number of jobs in the hospital that one could consider if all else fails. At least where I'm at, these tend to be filled by Canadian students who did med school abroad, but weren't able to match into a postgraduate (residency) training program.
1) Accessioning in the lab (sorting the incoming specimens)
2) Transcriptionists (few people can type fast enough, however)
3) Smaller hospitals may hire people with needle experience as phlebotomists without requiring them to have the requisite training degree
4) Porter
5) Teaching assistant at the local medical school (e.g. anatomy demonstrator)
Pharmaceutical representative jobs are here.
That's all I have at the top of my head - maybe someone else has some ideas.
This topic gets discussed a lot.
