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About Touchstone Institute
System advancements grounded in experience and expertise
Since its inception in 2007, Touchstone Institute has opened doors for internationally educated health professionals by supporting entry to practice in Canada. Today, we are leveraging nearly two decades of expertise to strengthen our support, expand capacity, and elevate competence to make a meaningful contribution to the country’s workforce strategies.
Touchstone develops and delivers practical workplace assessment programs to create pathways for health professionals with international training to practice in Canada. The learning programs we lead are focused on supporting health workers, including international medical graduates, to thrive within the health workforce.
Touchstone supports the delivery of high-quality healthcare. In our commitment to lead health workforce transformation and expand access to care, we leverage technological advancements and foster collaborative relationships with governments, system partners and health providers to optimize solutions for all.
Touchstone By The Numbers
Health professionals served since 2013
specialized services to assess and integrate health professionals
delivery locations across Canada
health disciplines
active partnerships
“We believe that maintaining rigorous standards and accreditation for specialty medicine and assessing candidate physicians against those established standards is critical for patients and families. Touchstone Institute brings invaluable expertise in supporting, managing and delivering complex examination programs, which is crucial to our success. Their dedicated efforts play a key role in enhancing the foundation of our medical community, helping to ensure that specialists provide the very best standards of patient care."
Dr. Farhan Bhanji
Director, Assessment and Certification and Examiner in Chief
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
