The quickest and most effective way to increase Ontario’s doctor training capacity would be to phase\u002Dout the Saudi contract training program
That’s why Ford needs to act. He announced last week that doctors from anywhere in Canada will be able to work in Ontario without any regulatory rigmarole. There should never have been barriers to hinder doctors who want to move from province to province, but Ford is the first premier to take those barriers down. Good for him.
There are currently 952 first-year undergraduate spaces and 1,188 first-year postgraduate positions in Ontario’s six medical schools. One of the things the government will want to examine is the gross mismatch between the number of people who want to be doctors and the medical school opportunities available. In Ontario, the successful application rate varies from school to school, but they are all low, between two and seven per cent. That’s no surprise. Ontario provides the smallest number of medical school places in the country, relative to its population of people in their 20s. The next lowest is B.C.
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