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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Ok, but that doesn't solve anything. You can't have entry level med students working in rural places, they're not qualified yet and could only work clerkships under actual docs. You also can't lock students into 10-year commitments when they haven't even being accepted into residency programs let alone wrote the CARMS exam.
There are some that might like rural communities (and yes that happens), but the system has to nurture them to stay in place, otherwise you get what is happening now - early retirements and getting the hell out of dodge.
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This is accurate it is a 5 to 6 year commitment to be qualified as a family doctor in Canada, from the start of medical school to the end of residency for family physicians. That isn’t including the requirement for an undergraduate degree as well (two years technically but that is the exception). There isn’t a magic formula, especially when the government has recently tried to unilaterally implement contract changes that impacted family physicians the most negatively.
Rural is hard to attract to but this government has been driving them away. These are people who can work anywhere they want but who feel disrespected and treated poorly with a community that is anti science as shown by their actions in the pandemic.