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Admission into Canadian family medicine residency training programs is a competitive process for interna-tional medical graduates (IMGs).1 From the perspective of Canadian programs, IMGs are physicians whose medical degree was conferred outside of Canada or the United States. Residency programs are challenged to assess the competence of heterogeneous groups of IMGs and to provide further orientation and educa-tion to applicants who are most likely to make the best residents and eventually the best physicians.2,3 IMGs who live in the Canadian province of Alberta may obtain a limited number of government-funded po-sitions for residency education by applying to Alberta’