Location of Training for Members in the Regulated Professions

Not all professions keep track of where their members were trained, but of those that do, the percentage of their membership that was internationally trained varied widely, from 0.5 per cent to 36 per cent.

The following table shows the numbers of members in each of the regulated professions, the location of their original training (Ontario, other provinces or outside of Canada) and the proportion of their members who were trained internationally.)

Note: The three professions that do not keep track of where their members were trained are the Law Society of Upper Canada (one of Ontario’s 10 largest regulatory bodies), the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors and the College of Midwives of Ontario. The College of Chiropractors of Ontario reported numbers for internationally trained members for the first time in 2008.

Number of Members in Ontario’s Regulated Professions, 2008
and Where They Received Their Training
Profession ¹	Ontario	Other Provinces and Territories	International	Unknown	TOTAL	Proportion of International Members
Architects ²	1,331	544	709	27	2,611	27%
Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologist	1,539	482	1,124	31	3,176	35%
Chartered Accountants	30,651	1,697	797	0	33,145	2%
Chiropodists	380	0	121	N/A	501	24%
Chiropractors ²	2,529	3	1,008	0	3,540	28%
Dental Hygienists	9,239	353	775	N/A	10,367	7%
Dental Surgeons	4,969	1,094	2,105	N/A	8,168	26%
Dental Technologists ²	198	9	134	142	483	28%
Denturists	510	7	23	0	540	4%
Dietitians	2,022	709	174	0	2,905	6%
Engineering Technicians and Technologists	11,536	553	2,840	0	14,929	19%
Engineers	42,153	9,805	17,759	1,778	71,495	25%
Foresters ²	581	102	8	2	693	1%
General Accountants ³	15,658	N/A	1,760	1,447	18,865	9%
Geoscientists ²	892	272	287	6	1,457	20%
Land Surveyors	N/A	N/A	N/A	637	6	N/A
Lawyers	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	40,000	N/A
Management Accountants	11,149	1,389	1,462	3,444	17,444	8%
Massage Therapists ²	8,152	33	39	75	8,299	0.5%
Medical Laboratory Technologists	690	96	278	6,686	7,750	4%
Medical Radiation Technologists	5,483	395	446	0	6,324	7%
Midwives ²	257	4	N/A	121	382	N/A
Nurses ²	129,531	4,134	14,932	687	149,284	10%
Occupational Therapists	3,540	445	452	0	4,437	10%
Opticians	527	138	20	1,571	2,256	1%
Optometrists ²	1,222	43	340	0	1,605	21%
Paralegals	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,300	N/A
Pharmacists	5,423	1,830	4,155	0	11,408	36%
Physicians and Surgeons	18,362	6,218	9,320	0	33,900	27%
Physiotherapists	4,838	798	1,244	0	6,880	18%
Psychologists	2,136	360	557	0	3,053	18%
Respiratory Therapists	2,374	192	74	0	2,640	3%
Social Service Workers	1,143	N/A	26	11	1,180	2%
Social Workers	10,209	N/A	1,127	81	11,417	10%
Teachers ²	174,262	13,356	31,563	0	219,181	14%
Veterinarians	2,971	343	614	N/A	3,928	16%
Total	505,457	45,404	96,273	14,746	707,718
N/A = not available ¹ The Law Society of Upper Canada regulates paralegals as well as lawyers, and the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers regulates the two groups represented in its name. Because these two regulatory bodies have different registration practices for each of the groups under their authority, they each filed two separate Fair Practices Reports. For that reason, numbers for the two groups are reported separately in this table. ² Non-practising members are not included in the totals for these professions. ³ The Certified General Accountants of Ontario’s data collection procedures only began to distinguish between Ontario and other Canadian provinces (as the location of applicants’ training) on June 1, 2007.