Apply to become a sponsor

Are you interested in sponsoring a position for recruiting an international medical graduate to your community? Please complete this sponsor application form.

Before you begin

Please have the following information ready to enter into this form:

  • your contact information
  • information about the sponsored position, including:
    • practice discipline
    • scope of practice
    • patient population
    • compensation
  • information about the Patient’s Medical Home model, including:
    • patient panel information (where the specialty position provides longitudinal care)
    • after-hours coverage
    • work with non-physician healthcare providers
    • patient screening (where the specialty position provides longitudinal care)

Once we’ve received your submission, we’ll be in touch to provide details about next steps.

Important notes

  • Submit 1 application per location and list all positions you are requesting for that location on the same form.
  • Watch for our reply to confirm we received your application.
  • Do not submit any physician sponsorship forms until you are an approved sponsor.
  • If you are an approved sponsor and want to request additional positions, please ensure that before you submit a new application, all your approved positions are filled, the candidates have successfully completed their PRAs and all associated fees have been paid.
  • If you are either a current CPSA sponsor applying for a different practice discipline position or a new sponsor applying for multiple practice discipline positions, please submit separate sponsor applications for each clinic location and discipline position.
  • If approved by CPSA, this position must be posted on DoctorJobsAlberta.com (at a minimum). The sponsor is responsible for arranging this posting.
  • CPSA is not responsible for immigration/work permit status for sponsored positions.

Applicants will receive an email confirming receipt of the application. CPSA will strive to complete the initial screening of the application for completeness and the final adjudication of the complete package with a written decision within about one month for applications that require little to no follow-up. If an application is incomplete and requires further follow-up during the initial screening, this will impact the timelines above.

Please note: Practice Readiness Assessment (PRA) assessors and supervisors are not eligible to be sponsors or be connected to sponsorship applications in any way. While any regulated physician may apply to be a sponsor, doing so requires a complete withdrawal from all PRA assessor/supervisor activities.

Application examples

To support you, we have prepared examples of completed applications that contain all of the information that CPSA needs to make a decision.

Questions?

If you have any questions before completing your application, please use the contact form below to reach out to our Registration Assessments team.

Sponsor expectations

CPSA expects all sponsors to make the following commitments:

Time & orientation support

  • Support sponsored physicians for up to 6 years, until they obtain a practice permit on the General Register. 
  • Ensure orientation to practice settings, electronic health records, and cultural sensitivity. 
  • Ensure completion of approved IMG orientation (e.g., University of Calgary or CPSA-approved course). 
  • Ensure physician maintains CMPA liability coverage. 
  • Allow up to 25% of practice time with provincial health providers (e.g., AHS, Covenant Health, Recovery Alberta). 

Standards & professionalism

  • CPSA’s Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics & Professionalism take precedence over sponsor agreements. 
  • Provide evidence of Alberta Health billing arrangements (fee-for-service or alternate payment model). 
  • Provide names of potential supervisors for Probationary Assessment; CPSA will arrange assessors for Preliminary Clinical Assessment. 
  • Sponsored physicians may report sponsor concerns to CPSA; maltreatment may result in CPSA revoking approval. 

Financial support

  • Commit to financial support through registration, Practice Readiness Assessment (PRA), and transition to independent practice. 
  • Pay a non-refundable sponsor application fee of $2,000 (+GST), required only for the first application. 

Legal advice

  • Sponsors must offer sponsored physician independent legal counsel to review all sponsorship and employment contracts.

Practice location(s)

The Patient’s Medical Home model must be in place for all sponsored family medicine physician positions or specialist positions that include longitudinal care.

  • CPSA will not approve sponsor applications for family medicine positions or specialist positions that include longitudinal care that are not connected to a Patient Medical Home. The College of Family Physicians of Canada defines the Patient’s Medical Home as a medical practice where “family physicians work in teams with other healthcare professionals to provide accessible, high-quality care for their patients.” These other healthcare professionals may include nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists and others who work with the physician/specialist to ensure continuity of care.

Complete the sponsor application form

Questions about sponsorship?

Use this form to contact our Registration Assessments team. We’d love to hear from you!

  • Providing your CPSA registration # will help us resolve your inquiry more efficiently.
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