Quebec plans to train more doctors per year
Posted May 9, 2024 9:20 am.
The Quebec government plans to train nearly 200 more doctors per year – starting this fall.
The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) wants to keep the promise it made in 2022 they say to recruit 660 new doctors by the end of their second term.
At the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, and for the next three years, 1,165 positions will be made available in the medical field.
This will be a total increase of 196 positions compared to the start of the school year in 2022.
The Health Minister’s office claims that in 2018, before the CAQ came to power, registrations were capped at 830 positions per year.
The CAQ had already started to increase registrations, but the government is now accelerating the pace with the new three-year policy adopted Wednesday.
The Quebec government hopes that by increasing the number of admissions, it will be able to respond to the shortage, which has left thousands of Quebecers without a family doctor. However, there is no guarantee that the increase in admissions will produce more family doctors.
