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A Canadian doctor trying to practise medicine in Victoria is raising the alarm on what he says is a difficult and ­excessive process for international ­medical graduates who want to get licensed in B.C.

Madhur Kuckreja, an ­internal medicine physician who has been practising in Boston for three years, was trained at St. George’s University, a ­Caribbean international medical school, before doing a residency at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.

Kuckreja, who was raised in Victoria and did his ­undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria, wanted to be closer to family and the West Coast.

Hearing of the physician shortage in Canada, he hoped to move back and practise family medicine in his hometown.

“The doctor shortage is a big reason why,” he said, ­during a break from work in ­Boston.

A Canadian doctor trying to practise medicine in Victoria is raising the alarm on what he says is a difficult and ­excessive process for international ­medical graduates who want to get licensed in B.C.

Madhur Kuckreja, an ­internal medicine physician who has been practising in Boston for three years, was trained at St. George’s University, a ­Caribbean international medical school, before doing a residency at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.

Kuckreja, who was raised in Victoria and did his ­undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria, wanted to be closer to family and the West Coast.

Hearing of the physician shortage in Canada, he hoped to move back and practise family medicine in his hometown.

“The doctor shortage is a big reason why,” he said, ­during a break from work in ­Boston.

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