This strategic plan, in place since 2024, has operationalized our commitment to serve and support the system of regulation and licensure, ultimately aiming to safely bring more physicians to patients in Canada. While objective assessment can’t measure everything expected of a physician, there is strong, established, and emerging evidence that performance on objective exams correlates with patient outcomes, including complaints, length of hospital stays, and mortality. Now in its third year, this strategic plan has enabled us to emphasize innovation in our assessments, including advancing our workplace-based assessment  efforts, enhancing our support for international medical graduates on established and new routes to practise in Canada, and continuing to ensure the sound management of physician data.

The MCC is a valued and trusted partner in the system of licensure and is uniquely positioned to support regulatory and licensing bodies as an objective third party. To serve our candidates and partners with increased transparency, they will be at the centre of our decisions, products, and services. 

As we see this strategic plan through its final year, the MCC continues to be guided by these five objectives and corresponding action plans. We remain committed to updating our partners and candidates as we finalize our progress towards these initiatives, all while laying out the foundation for our next strategic plan.