OMNI - The Big Wait (2010)

The one-hour TV documentary, directed by Joanne Jackson and Jari Osborne, tells the stories of three highly-skilled and extremely motivated foreign trained physicians, trying to get licensed to practise medicine in Canada.

Shot over a period of four years, the film follows the personal and emotional journeys of the doctors as they work through the long and often bureaucratic process of becoming a doctor in Canada. The documentary story starts in the community of Midland-Penetanguishene, which is facing a serious doctor shortage. Director Joanne Jackson who has roots in Northern Ontario was compelled to make this documentary after her own mother lost her family doctor.

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