Pathways · For internationally trained physicians and their sponsors
Licensure pathway comparison sourced to the regulator, including the routes you cannot take and why. Decisions worth years and thousands of dollars deserve better than fragmented, optimistic information.
The comparison on the right is live. Change the profile and watch the routes re-sort, including the ones that close.
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🇨🇦 Canada: 1 of 3 routes match your profile
You qualify
Practice-Ready Assessment
Supervised assessment instead of repeating residency
Outcome: Provisional to full provincial licence with return of service
2+ years postgraduate training; mostly family medicine; return-of-service terms
Not eligible with your profile
US board-certified fast track
ABMS/ABFM certification recognized directly
Outcome: Full or restricted-independent provincial licence
Full licensure immediately in 7 provinces; restricted-independent in ON/NL
Not eligible with your profile
Canadian residency (CaRMS)
Exams and the residency match: the standard route
Outcome: Provincial licence after residency and certification
Designed for early-career IMGs; IMG seats are competitive
Two of the eight destinations, with their real routes, rules, and estimates. Costs and times are route-level estimates and exclude living costs, travel, and relocation.
Counted directly from the shipped content, verified 11 June 2026. Time and cost figures are route-level estimates and exclude living costs, travel, relocation, and most courier and translation fees. They say so in the product too.
How it works
Pick where you trained and where you want to practise, answer four questions, and every route to that destination appears side by side: time, estimated cost, exam steps, and the licence you end up holding. Routes you do not qualify for stay on screen, greyed, with the reason. Nothing is hidden.
Choose a route and the platform freezes a personalized, dependency-ordered plan: only the steps that apply to you, in an order that respects what must happen before what. Your plan never silently changes under you; if the underlying route is updated, a banner tells you, and you choose when to look.
Each step becomes a small workspace: official source links with verified-on dates, estimated fee and elapsed weeks, status, to-dos, dated deadlines, notes, and the documents that step needs, ticked off automatically against your vault.
Your plan orders its steps by stage, respecting what must happen before what:
The 81 steps of the corpus, by stage. 38 steps carry prerequisites; 27 are conditional and appear only when they apply to you.
Coverage
54 states and territories modeled; 23 states plus Guam flagged for alternative pathways
10 provinces modeled; Quebec adds a French proficiency step
PLAB / UKMLA route and the Specialist Portfolio Pathway
Competent Authority, Standard, and Specialist pathways
29 comparable-health-system countries skip NZREX
DHA, DOH, and MOHAP modeled as separate authorities
Mumaris Plus classification and SMLE
DataFlow, qualifying exam, and DHP licence
Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman are listed in the product as destinations-in-waiting, visibly marked as having no published routes yet. 78 jurisdiction records sit underneath: 54 US states and territories, 10 Canadian provinces, and the three UAE authorities among them. 87 training countries are recognized in matching, driving real branching: five countries skip Australia’s AMC exams entirely, 29 skip New Zealand’s NZREX, and seven make a Gulf exam exemption likely.
The document vault
57 of the 81 steps require at least one document. The vault tracks ten document types across every journey you ever start: upload a document once and every step that needs it, in every journey, ticks it off automatically.
The concentration is the point: two documents, your licence certificate and a certificate of good standing, unlock 67 step requirements across the corpus. Uploading them is the single highest-leverage thing a user does.
Steps requiring each document
Medical licence certificate
36
Certificate of good standing
31
Passport / photo ID
8
CV / résumé
7
English test result (OET / IELTS)
6
Medical degree / diploma
5
Medical school transcript
5
Three further types are tracked and not yet required by a seeded step: licensing exam results, experience letters, and specialist certificates.
The honesty no forum or agency will give you
Routes you do not qualify for stay on screen, greyed, with the requirement stated in plain words. Telling somebody early that a route is closed to them, and why, is worth more than any amount of encouragement.
Every time and cost figure is labeled a route-level estimate, with the exclusions stated: living costs, travel, relocation, and most courier and translation fees are not included, and the product says exactly that.
Your journey is a frozen snapshot of the route on the day you committed, with its version number recorded. If the route is updated later, you see a banner telling you so, and you choose when to review the change.
All 81 steps carry citations to official domains, each with a verified-on date: the GMC, ECFMG, the Medical Council of Canada, AHPRA, SCFHS, DataFlow, state and provincial boards. A citable reference, not an opinion.
USMLE, MCCQE Part I, PLAB / MLA AKT, AMC CAT MCQ: the 16 exam steps in the Pathways corpus map onto the licensing exams EdAI Prep prepares you for, from the same certified architecture.
See it
A profile, the side-by-side comparison including greyed ineligible routes, and a committed step plan with the document vault.
Demo film in production
A profile, the side-by-side comparison including greyed ineligible routes, and a committed step plan with the document vault.
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