Road to Return: B.C. Medical Students Abroad is a comprehensive paper about how the current medical residency selection process works and SOCASMA’s position in regard to that.
Road to Return: B.C. Medical Students Abroad is a comprehensive paper about how the current medical residency selection process works and SOCASMA’s position in regard to that.
Can’t find a job? Can’t find a doctor? Faced with these conditions, it might seem paradoxical that doctors in B.C. are facing unemployment problems. Vancouver Sun reporter Pamela Fayerman reports on the reasons here.
On December 11, Dr. Evert Tuyp addressed the doctor shortage in a letter to the editor of Vancouver Sun. The series of letters below demonstrate how UBC is responding to the shortage and how its policy fails to address the shortage. Click the boxes to read more:
Overworked and in debt, Dr. Michael Power is closing his medical practice in Halifax and is moving to Toronto. Shortage of doctors in Halifax leaves the community without care as more doctors move out of the province. Read more…
Read about how Rory Silverberg, a Canadian English-speaking resident, is being required to prove his English proficiency before he can train in B.C. More here …
In 2011, MLA Dr. Moira Stillwell studied and prepared a report to the Minister of Health which concluded that it would be in the public interest to provide more residency positions to CSAs to address the severe doctor shortage in BC. The Recommendations in the report have not been implemented. Read the whole Stilwell […]
Definition of Discrimination “. . .discrimination may be described as a distinction, whether intentional or not, but based on grounds relating to personal characteristics of the individual or group, which has the effect of imposing burdens, obligations, or disadvantages on such individual or group not imposed upon others, or which withholds or limits access to […]
This document explains the development of our current medical system from a historic and legal perspective. It describes the current competition streams for medical residency and why this system is inconsistent with public interests. Below, we break down the 2013 BC Residency Competition Stream for you and list the implications:
Universities co-opting academic freedom to industry, report says