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Originally Posted by GGG
The biggest cost is staffing. The only solutions to staffing is stealing staff from other nations or training more. In an ideal world we would partner with the US and ramp up medical field enrolments in universities then when their are a surplus of trained people we could pay them closer to their European counterparts.
Even without the US it might be cheaper just to throw money at education to decrease scarcity of employees. You could put in special spots in schools that require X years of rural service time as GPs or Family Doctor only spots. Trade free education for restrictions on future employment.
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I believe Doctors are currently the most subsidized degree in Alberta, ALL student spots are full, and even our Family Medicine residential spots in Calgary tend to fill up. Also, with how the system is run, I don't THINK its very feasible to tie a student spot to a specific residential spot given the resident system is Canada wide and may violate their procedures (doesn't mean it isn't possible however). Please correct me if wrong
So, the issue isn't the supply of people applying, it is the supply of education spots and desire to move to rural.
Following that logic, I would not be for your idea but instead continuing to increasing rates and benefits (such as fly in and fly out) in rural areas.
Or take the UCP approach and pick fights with Family doctors while ignoring the other specialties