It is now confirmed. Once again this year, medical graduates in Quebec are abandoning family medicine in favor of other specialties. In the province, 65 positions for family medicine residents remained vacant after the second round of matching by CaRMS, the pan-Canadian organization in charge of the operation.
According to data released by CaRMS on Thursday, all specialty positions in Quebec have been filled, except three in internal medicine at the University of Montreal. Last year, 75 family medicine positions remained vacant.
According to the FMOQ, there are 1,000 family physicians short of meeting the needs of Quebecers. In the province, retirements are accelerating. In 2021, some 275 general practitioners caring for patients reported to the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec that they were leaving the practice or would do so within two years. This is a number almost twice as high as in 2017, according to data obtained by The duty with the RAMQ.
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