No takers yet for $25,000 new-doctor signing bonus

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A new two-year contract from the province offering a $25,000 bonus has yet to attract any new family medicine residents — 175 of whom graduated from the University of B.C. last week — to sign on as a family doctor in B.C.

Health Minister Adrian Dix had hoped to scoop up 175 new grads by offering a two-year “new to practice” deal valued at $295,457, with a $25,000 signing bonus that expires on Sept. 30 and about $130,000 over five years in medical-training debt-forgiveness. In a June 20 letter to the Health Ministry and Doctors of B.C. signed by 168 residents, Boskovic and Moradi expressed concern that the offer does not address overhead expenses — including rent, staff, utilities, supplies, licensing fees, malpractice insurance, software for charting and locum doctors to cover vacations — which can total $80,000 to $100,000 annually.

Boskovic and Moradi say the new-to-practice contract was the only option offered to them. Typically, they would start on fee-for-service after graduation. “We have not had anything else presented to us that includes infrastructure supports or adjustments to the fee-for-service supports,” said Boskovic.

About one third of the 175 family medicine residents studied internationally and are already committed to what’s called a “return of service” agreement, where, in exchange for every year the ministry funds their training, they must give back to family-medicine practice in an under-served area.

 

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