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Originally Posted by Jason14h
https://cpsa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2...rly-Report.pdf
Heres the quarterly update on Physician resources in Alberta if anyone wants the actual numbers. Which I know no one does!
"To put this in perspective, report 4 (Summary of Inflows and Outflows) reflects an inflow of 137 physicians during the fourth quarter. Offsetting the overall inflow of
physicians was an outflow of 76 physicians. Please refer to Report 4 for further explanation on the inflows and outflows that occurred during this quarter."
Almost exactly the 2-1 ratio that was stated earlier on migration
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A few things:
1) That doesn't represent migration; it's simply the number of doctors who are practising in Alberta in different time periods, so that includes losses to retirement and whatnot.
2) That's not a particularly encouraging stat. Alberta had 254 more doctors at the end of 2022 vs. the end of 2021. But that only represents a 2.3% increase in a province that had its population increase by 3.7% in the same time period. So they'd need to increase that by 60% just to maintain the same ratio as before, never mind actually improve things.
3) If you look at the regional breakdown, the growth was almost entirely in the cities. The South Zone actually lost almost 4% of their doctors in the last year and the North Zone was more or less flat. That doesn't bode well for the future of medical access outside the cities.