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 […]
More doctors without jobs as Canadians face long wait times
Published: February 17, 2014, 4:32 pm OTTAWA — More than 100 stakeholders in the medical profession are gathering in Ottawa this week to discuss a paradoxical issue affecting health care in Canada: a growing number of doctors without jobs. The National Summit on Physician Employment, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, was organized by the Royal […]
Quebec’s ‘dying with dignity’ law would set new standards
Bill 52 follows European, not U.S. models for end of life, unbearable suffering criteria By Janet Davison, CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2014 5:00 AM ET Should Quebec’s national assembly pass — as early as this week — the proposed legislation to allow medical aid in dying, it will be setting in place a law that appears to take much of its […]
Opinion: Shoddy Canadian research is putting women’s lives at risk
Regular mammography screenings detect cancer, despite what flawed study reported… BY PAULA GORDON, SPECIAL TO THE VANCOUVER SUN FEBRUARY 13, 2014 Regular screening mammograms find cancers earlier and save lives. For many women, this is conventional wisdom, as well it should be; every credible scientific study supports screening. All, that is, except one, a poorly designed, […]
A doctor planning a move to Canada? Planning to hire a foreign doctor? BEWARE!!!
Employers recruiting foreign physicians are finding that ignorance of changing Canadian government regulations can be a very costly mistake – and a heartbreaker for foreign doctors and their families…. The increasing complexity associated with the pathways that foreign physicians must follow to legally start work in Canada is now littered with veritable regulatory landmines. Stringent […]
MDs avoiding social media in droves: poll
The majority of Canadian physicians are avoiding the use of social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook for professional purposes because they anticipate too many pitfalls and too few benefits, a new CMA poll shows. The results, from a recent survey involving the CMA’s ePanel, offer a detailed assessment of MDs’ use of social […]
