Doctors across Canada will have a chance to weigh in Wednesday on lengthening family medicine training by a year, an idea that has drawn condemnation from medical students , rural doctors and Residency is the mandatory hands-on training program for doctors after they graduate from medical school but before they earn a licence to practise independently.
The longer residency program, which would be gradually introduced beginning no earlier than 2027, is supposed to prepare residents better for the increasingly complex landscape of family medicine, Dr. Green explained. Canada’s two-year residency for family doctors is among the shortest in the world. Family doctors train for three years in the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Australia. Australia has a rural family medicine designation that requires four years of training. Ireland’s core family medicine residency runs four years.
Critics of the CFPC’s plan fear that a longer residency will turn graduates off family practice, exacerbating the country’s primary-care crisis. Statistics Canada’s most recent, from 2021, found that about 4.
Ms. Jones sent a letter to the CFPC last week reiterating her government’s opposition. That was followed by open letters from theon Tuesday. All urged the CFPC to suspend the plan, as did the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada in an earlier
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