PC party leader attends the protest in support of fishermen | SaltWire #newsupdate #newfoundlandIt is a day that represents promise for thousands of medical students across Canada. But this year Match Day, in which graduating medical students are matched with residency programs that will direct their career paths, is being seen as a sign of the worsening crisis in primary care, especially in Ontario.
“Students don’t want that type of practice when they graduate,” said Dr. David Barber, chair of the section on general and family practice of the Ontario Medical Association.It is clear medical students have been paying attention and are saying “no thanks” to family medicine, said Barber. He said the trend of fewer graduating students choosing family medicine is a sign of a “lack of confidence in the provincial government’s approach to supporting family doctors.
Members of the grassroots group known as the Ontario Union of Family Physicians have even warned doctors against coming to Ontario to practice family medicine. They say the Ontario government is not responding to the crisis with the urgency it requires. “The underwhelming outcome resulted from an unstable economic model for office-based family practice and a lack of respect and understanding for the role family physicians play in health care, by multiple levels and iterations of governments in power,” said the statement, signed by doctors Ramsey Hijazi, Vakar Khan and Alex Duong.leave his family practice later this spring“Starting up a new family practice in Ontario is not sustainable,” he said. “It is not a good place to set up a practice.