Family Physician: Express Entry CRS score in 2026
For a Family Physician (NOC 31102, TEER 1), your Express Entry chances depend on your CRS score versus recent draw cutoffs. Here's where things stand — and how to find your exact number.
Good news: Family Physicians can be targeted in Healthcare category-based rounds, which often invite candidates below the general cutoff.
What this occupation involves
General practitioners and family physicians diagnose and treat the diseases, physiological disorders and injuries of patients. They provide primary contact and continuous care toward the management of patients’ health. They usually work in private practice, including group or team practices, hospitals and clinics. Residents in training to be general practitioners or family physicians are included in this unit group.
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Main duties
- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures and consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients’ physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Perform and assist in routine surgery
- Provide emergency care
- Provide acute care management
- Vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
- Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care
- Advise patients and their families on health care including health promotion, disease, illness and accident prevention
- Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
- Perform patient advocacy role
- Coordinate or manage primary patient care
- Provide continuous care to patients
- Supervise home care services
- Report births, deaths, and contagious and other diseases to governmental authorities.
Employment requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or in Quebec, completion of a college program and one year of pre-medicine university studies is usually required.
- Graduation from an approved medical school and two to three years of family medicine residency training are required.
- Completion of the qualifying examinations of the Medical Council of Canada or the Collège des médecins du Québec and licensing by the provincial or territorial licensing authority are required.
Definition, duties and requirements are quoted from the Government of Canada's National Occupational Classification (NOC 2021) — the wording used to assess your work experience. View the official NOC profile
What score do you need?
The honest answer depends on your age, education, language and experience — the same profile scores very differently at 29 versus 39. Rather than guess from an average, calculate your exact CRS in two minutes.
Cutoffs are drawn from recent rounds and change every draw. Treat them as guidance, not guarantees.