Friday, August 25, 2006

Canadian Ratio Doctors to patients

Yesterdays Winnipeg Free Press had an article on the election of the president of the Canadian Medical Association Dr. Brian Day. What caught my attention was not the headlines that he is a Private-care doctor but rather the fact that there are 62,000 doctors in Canada belonging to the CMA.
The latest vital stratistics in Canada places the population at just over 33,000,000. Even if we accept that only 60,000 are actively practicing some medicine that gives a ratio of approximaely 1 to 600 patients. In some countries the ratio is much lower 1 into 1000 or even 1 t0 2000 people. If these data are accurate then pray tell me why are the faculties of medicine in Canadian medical schools increasing the student enrolment in Medicine ( U of Manitoba has increased the enrolment to over 100 students ) ?

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