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Originally Posted by GGG
I agree decreasing time doesn’t do much.
Hence why increasing spots in education is the only solution.
I don’t see why mandating certain work areas post education couldn’t be done. Perhaps create a school for rural medicine which has no government subsidy so students have to pay full cost but then have grants which forgive if you do 10 years in a rural area. This way you get around forcing people to work, it’s their choice where they work but it becomes a very expensive place to work if you don’t.
The point of this type of program wouldn’t be to get doctors who don’t want to work in rural areas to work in rural areas. It’s to get people who want to work in rural areas medical degrees. We know there is a far greater supply of applicants than spots so creating new spots and giving these spots to people who want to live in small towns seems like a good solution.
The only question would be how to legally make it happen.
The whole system should be designed to produce more doctors than Canada requires to create a surplus.
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I don't know the answers to your points, they are good points. I do think it would be quicker and easier to see results however to simply increase perks and pay in rural areas vs a system overall which may have unintended consequences.
As for increasing spots, I am all for it... but remember, increasing spots in AB doesn't mean more doctors in AB - the resident placement program is nation wide and its quite common for students to be flying around the country interviewing. That said, direct forced placement would avoid this issue, if possible.
But like, you get into medical school, you learn what you like. You learn you have a passion for psych but because you qualified under the rural family medicine program, you can't take psych? It seems.... not right.