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For the third year in a row, there was a decline in the number of medical students who are seeking residency with family doctors, according to the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). “The OMA is concerned about the declining number of medical students choosing family medicine,” OMA president Dr. Andrew Park …
Read More »Why thousands of rural Ontarians may be at risk of losing their doctor
Roughly 10,000 patients in rural Ontario could lose their doctor due to a provincial funding decision that splits a small town into haves and have-nots, according to the local clinic’s medical director. “To have half of our patient population go without those extra supports that we all desperately need right now …
Read More »‘The American model’: Ontario doctor claims move to private care building steam
Dr. David Barber, chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s general and family practice section, says a move toward private health care in Ontario is “happening already” and that it’s “going to get worse.” During a news conference Thursday discussing a shortage of family doctors in Ontario, Barber said one of …
Read More »‘Dire consequence’: Ontario doctors pitch plan for buckling health-care sector
With a family doctor shortage, increasing burnout among health-care workers and ever-growing wait times at emergency departments putting more and more pressure on Ontario’s health-care system, the province’s doctors are hoping the government heeds their suggestions for solutions. “We are in a state of dire consequence if we don’t do …
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