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Unemployed physicians a sign of poor workforce planning

Brian Owens · May 22, 2019 ·

After years of gruelling training, specialists might be forgiven for expecting it to be easy to find a job and put their hard-earned, in-demand skills to work. But that is not always the case. Around 20% of specialists cannot find work at the time of their certification, according to a survey by the Royal College […]

Medical specialists break away from OMA at “worst possible time” warns Quebec specialist group

Brian Owens · December 18, 2018 ·

The plan by several medical specialist groups to break away from the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and negotiate directly with the provincial government may be the right move for specialists but the timing — in the middle of arbitration proceedings for a new contract — couldn’t be worse, according to Dr. Diane Francoeur, president of […]

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