UBC says it lacks the physician resources to train more resident,s but it sells residency positions to oil rich countries

  • UBC SAYS IT LACKS THE PHYSICIAN RESOURCES TO TRAIN MORE RESIDENT PHYSICIANS, BUT IT SELLS RESIDENCY POSITIONS TO OIL RICH COUNTRIES.
    • There is money to fund more residency positions to meet Canada’s doctor shortage.
    • But UBC says it does not have the physician resources to train more resident physicians.
    • UBC collected $7.13 million in the last academic year from medical graduates from oil rich countries.
    • UBC uses our publicly funded doctors to train these oil rich medical graduates in the positions that we need for Canadians.
    • These oil rich medical graduates under contracts with the people who pay their way to return to their home country.
    • Some people are under the misapprehension that the $75,000 per oil rich medical graduate is used to subsidize the Canadian residency program.
    • The funding letters between the Ministry of Health and UBC show that no income from the fees charged to oil rich medical graduates is used to offset costs of training Canadian medical residents.
    • The only subsidy for medical residency training for Canadians in BC is from Health Canada, which pays $2.8 million dollars per year as an incentive to train international medical graduates.