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Auscandoc Apr 14, 2025

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/family-doctor-medical-school-1.7328500 “She said that students are selected for a commitment to family practice and are taught largely by #familyphysicians, then transition from their #MD program into guaranteed #familymedicine residency positions in Durham Region”

New medical school for family doctors aims to help solve the shortage | CBC Radio

The people behind a new medical school dedicated solely to turning out family doctors say the program is disrupting traditional medical education in a way that could help solve Canada’s shortage of family physicians. But critics say the effort is a drop in the bucket and that solutions to the primary care shortage lie elsewhere.

CBC

Auscandoc Feb 25, 2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-cure-solutions-for-canadian-doctor-shortage-1.7465633 “Walsh is one of an estimated 6.5 million Canadians left navigating a strained health-care system by themselves, as the country's family doctor shortage reaches a crisis point. According to a 2025 #HealthCanada report analyzing the health-care workforce, the country is currently short 22,823 #familyphysicians.”

Canadians need doctors. These strategies from around the country aim to find them | CBC News

An estimated 6.5 million Canadians don’t have access to a family doctor. This shortage of family physicians is reaching what some call a crisis point, but there are a number of strategies in place across the country as people within the health-care system work to find solutions.

CBC

Auscandoc Feb 6, 2025

Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands all have mixed systems of physician payment – some fee-for-service, some capitation, and some salaried.

Physicians in Denmark and the Netherlands, in general, take home markedly less than those in Canada, but have far more administrative support and, it seems, better work-life balance. Unlike Canada, family doctors are paid the same, or more, than other specialists.” #FamilyPhysicians #PrimaryCare https://med-mastodon.com/@picardonhealth/113956914412124948

André Picard (@picardonhealth@med-mastodon.com)

The Dutch and Danes have demonstrated that every citizen can have a family doctor. Canada needs to learn from them to fix primary care. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-dutch-and-danes-have-much-to-teach-canada-about-better-health-care/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

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Auscandoc Feb 4, 2025

There is currently a deficit of 22,823 between supply and demand for #familyphysicians in Canada, and only approximately 1,300 new graduates per year. At this rate, Canada will never solve the existing #physicianshortage” (2/2)

Auscandoc Aug 27, 2024

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523001622 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523001622#sec2 “Canadians' #HealthOutcomes are inextricably tied to #SocialInequities. #FamilyMedicine is uniquely situated to provide care that addresses social factors through longitudinal knowledge of patients and the contexts of their lives. However, #FamilyPhysicians have come under increased practice demands shaped by neoliberal ideological structuring of #healthcare, compounding difficulties in providing care”

“You are the only other person in the world that knows that about me”: Family physician stories of proximity to patients experiencing social inequity

Canadians' health outcomes are inextricably tied to social inequities. Family medicine is uniquely situated to provide care that addresses social fact…

Ms. Que Banh Aug 16, 2024

*Me, my Mom & my youngest brother are some of the many thousands of patients in #BritishColumbia who have been on the #WaitingList for a new family #doctor since our previous GPs retired.*

When the province introduced its #HealthConnectRegistry in 2021, we were told this would help #patients to find a #FamilyPhysician.

About 900,000 #BritishColumbians have no doctor, and while the #Health Ministry continues to announce the recruitment of new #physicians, that number has remained fairly constant for years.

Yet the #inability of the Registry to make meaningful progress is only one of its failings.

More troubling is that the Registry makes no attempt to place patients based on their age or #medical condition. This conflicts with one of the basic principles underlying medical practice, that faced with an inability to treat everyone who needs help, those with the most pressing requirements should come first.

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorial-tell-us-where-we-stand-in-queue-for-a-doctor-9358753?utm_source=Times+Colonist+Headline+News&utm_campaign=b06b386dfc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d22ba5c6e6-a978a9ba3c-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=b06b386dfc&mc_eid=48512ab3b3

#BCpoli #PublicHealth #WeNeedFamilyDoctors #FireBonnieHenry #HealthCareCrisis #BChealthCare #StopEugenics #BCPublicHealth #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCgovernment #HealthCareFailures #AdrianDix #BonnieHenry #EbyTheEnabler #DavidEby #FamilyPhysicians #WeNeedDoctors #OathbreakerBonnie #BootBonnieHenry #CDNpoli

Editorial: Tell us where we stand in queue for a doctor

Some residents who’ve been on the Registry since its inception have never received an update on their status and still have no family doctor.

Times Colonist

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Auscandoc Mar 25, 2024

@DocMCohen sorry this just ticks me off. #Naturopaths keep making this claim as if it’s something special they do.

This is the #BioPsychoSocial approach that _all_ #FamilyPhysicians practice.

“Their approach is to look at the whole person. So not just their physical aspects, but mental, emotional, social, environmental (factors)," [O’Reilly] said.

Auscandoc Feb 23, 2024

More people have access to #FamilyDoctors: #DoctorsofBC https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/02/23/bc-family-doctors-more-access/ “Doctors of BC says the number we’ve heard for so long — that 1 million British Columbians don’t have access to a family doctor — is no longer accurate.

“That number is probably now in the mid to high 700,000 number, because we’ve been able to attract more #FamilyPhysicians to British Columbia,” said Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin, president of Doctors of BC.”

More people have access to family doctors: Doctors of BC

Doctors of BC says the number we've heard -- that 1 million British Columbians don't have access to a family doctor -- is no longer accurate.

CityNews Vancouver

Auscandoc Feb 12, 2024

B.C.’s doctor-patient ‘attachment’ system connects 600 doctors with new patients https://www.abbynews.com/news/bcs-doctor-patient-attachment-system-connects-600-doctors-with-new-patients-7316089 “province has been able to connect nearly 600 #FamilyPhysicians with thousands of new patients through its health registry system
The overall number of doctors practicing “#LongitudinalFamilyPractice,” which Dix described as a “fancy way of saying they are taking patients,” has gone from 4,289 in December 2022 to 4,997 in December 2023, an increase of 16.5 per cent from December 2022”