More junior specialists are facing bleak job prospects than at any time since The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada began studying the problem in 2011
The grim job market for orthopedic surgeons in the Maritimes is one of the reasons Daryl Dillman, seen here, chose to take a year of further training as a fellow at an Indianapolis hospital.Nearly one in five newly certified specialists cannot find a full-time job in Canada, a situation that is leading some young doctors to decamp to the United States while patients in this country languish on waiting lists.
While doctors’ personal preferences about where to work are part of the explanation, the Royal College and other specialist leaders blame the disconnect on a shortage of public funding for necessities such as operating-room time, recovery beds and nursing support. The 28-year-old grew up in Cole Harbour, N.S., and spent five years training as a resident surgeon at Halifax’s Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, where he focused on repairing bones after major traumatic injuries. He was also a finalist on the CBC showDr. Dillman said he would love to come home to practice, but “there’s just no room to hire anybody until someone retires and that’s not in the foreseeable future.
However, new specialists can expect their prospects to brighten with time: Of those who reported struggling to find work between 2013 and 2016, 61 per cent had found a job by the time the College issued a follow-up survey a year or more more later.
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