Physician workforce planning in Canada: the importance of accounting for population aging and changing physician hours of work
Md. Rabiul Islam, Boris Kralj, Arthur Sweetman
Abstract
KEY POINTS Canada has long struggled to maintain an appropriately sized physician workforce.[1][1]–[4][2] The recruitment of foreign-trained physicians over recent decades and, starting in the mid-2000s, increased domestic enrollments in medical schools has led to Canada currently having an
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