Ask Ontario’s Doctors: Medical school leaders address declining interest in family medicine

Ontario’s doctors, are concerned about the declining number of medical students choosing family medicine and say solutions are needed before the doctor shortage is exacerbated.
Students are aware of the funding issues and administrative work associated with practicing comprehensive family medicine and don’t want to enter practice in a broken system.
A staggering 2.3 million people are already without a family doctor and that number is expected to nearly double in only two years.
Watch a panel discussion moderated by OMA President Dr. Andrew Park and joined by:
Dr. Cathy Risdon, chair of the department of family medicine at McMaster University
Dr. Gena Piliotis, associate dean of undergraduate medical education at Queen's University
Dr. Azadeh Moaveni, director of undergraduate medical education in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Toronto
Dr. Jobin Varughese, family doctor and interim assistant dean of primary care education at Toronto Metropolitan University