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 0.6 per cent to 37 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.)

Members in OFC-Monitored Professions, 2009, and Where They Received Their Training
Profession ¹	Ontario	Other Canadian Provinces	International	Unknown	Total	Proportion of Internationally Trained Members (includes USA)
Architects	1,411	552	778	24	2,765	28%
Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists	1,610	504	1,151	26	3,291	35%
Chartered Accountants	29,143	3,085	1,613	N/A	33,841	5%
Chiropodists	411	0	115	0	526	22%
Chiropractors	2,677	3	1,057	0	3,737	28%
Dental Hygienists	10,179	367	784	0	11,330	7%
Dental Surgeons	5,072	1,146	2,192	0	8,410	26%
Dental Technologists	212	12	142	160	526	27%
Denturists	534	9	35	0	578	6%
Dietitians	2,130	733	202	0	3,065	7%
Early Childhood Educators	21,402	147	N/A	910	22,459	N/A
Engineering Technicians and Technologists	11,878	566	2,969	0	15,413	19%
Engineers	42,785	9,889	18,559	1,698	72,931	25%
Foresters	809	163	39	9	1,020	4%
General Accountants	15,571	63	1,570	1,718	18,922	8%
Geoscientists	964	296	318	3	1,581	20%
Land Surveyors	N/A	N/A	N/A	638	638	N/A
Lawyers¹	36,834	1,318	539	N/A	38,691	1%
Management Accountants	11,724	1,475	1,584	3,411	18,194	9%
Massage Therapists	8,825	64	51	0	8,940	0.6%
Medical Laboratory Technologists	5,106	342	996	1,237	7,681	13%
Medical Radiation Technologists	5,664	394	461	0	6,519	7%
Midwives	381	3	85	20	489	17%
Nurses	132,625	4,315	15,514	657	153,111	10%
Occupational Therapists	3,700	450	470	0	4,620	10%
Opticians	2,404	238	40	53	2,735	1%
Optometrists	1,288	47	424	0	1,759	24%
Paralegals¹	2,721	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,721	N/A
Pharmacists	5,572	1,870	4,453	0	11,895	37%
Physicians and Surgeons	18,782	6,320	9,727	0	34,829	28%
Physiotherapists	5,001	813	1,344	0	7,158	19%
Psychologists, Psychological Associates	2,331	418	646	0	3,395	19%
Respiratory Therapists	2,494	200	70	0	2,764	3%
Social Service Workers¹	1,380	N/A	36	0	1,416	3%
Social Workers¹	10,804	N/A	1,226	75	12,105	10%
Teachers	177,538	13,221	33,720	0	224,479	15%
Veterinarians	3,374	357	693	N/A	4,424	16%
Total	585,336	49,380	103,603	10,639	748,958

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.