Recruiters say surge in U.S. doctors looking to move to Canada since Trump election [Video]

Recruiters say there’s been a surge of interest from American doctors considering moving to Canada since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump in November.

Katrina Philopoulos, recruitment director for Nova Scotia Health, says 27 American doctors are in serious negotiations to move, which to date has resulted in one person being hired and a second who is expected to move to the province next year.

Philopoulos says her agency’s message to doctors isn’t overtly political and is aimed at anyone “ready to make the change” after Trump’s victory.

Manitoba’s health minister, Uzoma Asagwara, says the province is talking to about 12 American physicians, and has hosted webinars for about 50 nurses in the U.S.

Asagwara says recruiters in Manitoba, which has one of the country’s lowest number of physicians per capita, are going to intensify their U.S. efforts in the coming weeks.

Dr. Rohini Patel says her firm — …