Article Foretelling Dark Future for Canadians Who Study Medicine Abroad Reprehensible
According to a recent article entitled “False Hope for Canadians Who Study Medicine Abroad” from the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research by Barer, Evans and Hedden, – Canadians that choose to study Medicine abroad should not expect any special consideration, and can expect an unpleasant outcome in their efforts to re-enter Canada to practice medicine. http://www.cmaj.ca/content/186/7/552.extract?cited-by=yes&legid=cmaj;186/7/552 Much of the article’s […]
Prediction of Hospital Closures due to new LMO regulations!
Recently the Nova Scotia Commission on Building Our New Economy released its final report, “Now or Never”: An Urgent Call to Action for Nova Scotians, or what is now referred to as the “Ivany Report”. The report proposes a national project to address current economic and population challenges. Although focused on Nova Scotia, the report […]
Medical Practice Opportunity at Magazine Landing in Dartmouth
Magazine Landing – A prestigious new development on Windmill road in Dartmouth will host a multi-disciplinary medical practice. Located in the largest business park in Atlantic Canada, Magazine Landing’s ideal location off Windmill road gets more than 38,000 cars/day and is near more than 1000 businesses. The development will consist of 100,000 square feet of […]
Canadian patients wait longest to see family doctors
Access to after-hours care, emergency department waits vary between provinces, raise questions CBC News Canada ranks last among 11 OECD countries in a new survey in terms of how quickly people can get in to see their regular family physicians, showing “where a person lives does matter,” says the Health Council of Canada. The finding […]
Mobilizing national efforts to improve health workforce planning
Reprinted from Vol. 14, No. 3 — March 2014, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada The Royal College is mobilizing national efforts to improve health workforce planning and address the growing employment challenges facing Canadian physicians. This work took a considerable step forward at the first National Physician Employment Summit, which was hosted […]
Short of recruits, not patients: geriatric medicine strives for “critical mass”
by Patrick Sullivan March 19, 2014 As Canada deals with a sharp increase in the number of frail, elderly patients, the medical subspecialty that was created to care for these patients is proving a hard sell with new physicians. “There are only 242 certified geriatricians in Canada,” says Dr. Frank Molnar, who represents the Canadian […]
Foreign physicians moving to Canada are facing more competition from Canadian graduates
Foreign physicians planning on a move to Canada are facing more competition from newly trained Canadian medical graduates – it is time to broaden employment search options beyond Canada’s major urban centres. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says there were more than 72,500 physicians caring for patients in 2011, a rise of 14% since […]
Aging doctors to be put under the microscope in Nova Scotia
College of Physicians wants to monitor doctors working after retirement age The Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons is moving ahead with plans to assess the competency of aging doctors. Recently, a 75-year-old doctor in northern Cape Breton voluntarily gave up her licence after she started to lose her hearing. In response, Dr. Gus […]
New Temporary Foreign Worker Rules “an Impediment to Business”
Written by Jennifer Brown Posted Date: January 13, 2014 Stephen Green says there should be more transparency from government on compliance inspections. Inspections without warrants and further delays to Labour Market Opinions make recent changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program bad for Canadian business, say immigration lawyers. On Dec. 31, a new set of […]
Summit tackles MD employment issues, seeks national response
Canada’s major medical organizations have committed to ongoing efforts to solve the unemployment and underemployment problems facing some newly trained physicians, particularly in hospital-based specialties such as orthopedic surgery. The commitment was contained in a joint statement issued following the National Physician Employment Summit, a mid-February gathering in Ottawa that attracted more than 100 representatives […]
