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Their website says that they'll start sending out acceptances mid-May so I think it'll be around the same time as Ontario schools 

Has anyone had movement in UofA OT applications? Or is everyone still at the pre-screening stage?

Le temps plein est obligatoire ça c'est sûr. Je ne suis pas certaine que tu aies temps de liberté sur ton horaire mais peut être je me trompe ! 

Just got accepted into UofA MscPT Edmonton campus! Cant wait to meet everyone and good luck to those who haven’t heard yet. You got it!

All I’ve been doing is going crazy…this next week and a half is going to feel like ages

Je viens d'avoir mes résultats finaux, ça me ferait un GPA de 4.11/4.3 je suis vraiment contente !  Si je maintien ce GPA encore un an en bio (ou je l'améliore sait on jamais !) Et que je fais un bon casper j'ai peut être des chances 

Congratulations! Are you an in-province applicant?

Just got the email acceptance for UofA MscPT Calgary Campus! Rooting for everyone else! 

It's sad!  The healthcare system is in terrible shape. The politicians are only interested in appearances to the public as their interest is in gaining votes, not in really improving the system for the betterment of our population. And Trudeau on the heels of an election is pushing free dental care and providing a tiny band aid for the lack of affordable rental housing and the unaffordable price of homes. In all the above, the governments are doing too little, too late and going in the wrong directions. Short term solutions are no solutions at all,, rather they make things worse.    

NP's are literally doing HALF THE WORK, as in literally seeing half the patients (2 patients per hour), managing half-sized patient panel (1000 vs 2000), vs a GP whilst being paid 80-100% the same "salary" (whether through contract/salary/fee-for-service/overhead allowance).  We don't even need to begin to debate the acuity of the cases, the quality of an NP's work, or patient outcomes or whether unnecessary tests/referrals are being made (therefore costing the medical system more). To be honest, under the current system, I would rather actually take an Alberta NP contract (give me 40 hour work weeks, 200K+ base salary, 85K overhead allowance, however many weeks paid vacation, a pension plan and so on). I'll see 2 patients per hour, I can spend 10 minutes doing an actual visit and 20 minutes chatting with my patients about their golf game or they leave early and I surf the Internet and twiddle my thumbs. This is in my opinion, the beginning of death of FM in Canada for CMG's, and hearing about this new Alberta contract makes my recommendation to any Canadian medical students to not match in FM (literally do anything else). If I graduated today I would even choose pathology or lab medicine according to the above posts/salaries. We are likely looking at a future of FM only staffed by IMG's / NP's and basically any CMG's that couldn't match outside of FM and were forced into FM. I am personally not interested to "see where this is going", because there is already a pattern of Governments trying to decrease spending (on GP visits specifically) short-term, by utilizing measures such as giving Pharmacists prescribing powers and authority to perform clinical visits (and get paid) for lists of "basic problems" such as UTIs. Legislation legitimizing pseudo-science practitioners such as Naturopaths to act as "primary caregivers" and authority to order government-paid tests like certain lab tests, prescriptions etc. It wouldn't surprise me if these policies came from a table of non-healthcare idiots in Government who just sat around and said, "oh look GP visits are the largest % spending in Healthcare (ignoring that there are many more GP's than specialists), wouldn't it be great if we could reduce this expenditure by X%, imagine how much money we would save!" From a Government perspective, the only thing they can see is that they reduce GP fee-for-service visits (therefore saving paying GP's!). What they cannot see is that they still have to payout NP's, Pharmacists (not Naturopaths because they have to be paid by extended health care so those visits are completely saved costs!). At the rate they are paying NP's and Pharmacists to "substitute" for GP visits, they aren't even saving that much money per visit. And in the case of NP's some Government beancouter has overlooked that they are paying 80% for a nurse to see 2 patients where a GP would see 4, in effect costing the medical system 60% more per patient seen As a consequence, 5-10 years from now we will start dealing with fallout from missed diagnoses (and probably increased ER visits or increased costs from unnecessary ordered tests) that will end up costing the medical system more. By then, current Government will have won the next immediate election (the only thing they care about), or be long out of power and they don't care about kicking the can down the road.

Salut à tous! Mon amie et moi venons de finir notre 1ère année de med vet et, nous avons créé un compte instagram pour s’entraider, puisque nous savons à quel point le fameux processus d’admission est stressant et qu’il y a peu d’informations disponibles sur le programme. N’hésitez pas à nous suivre et à nous poser des questions, ça nous fera plaisir de vous répondre! @2vetgirls https://www.instagram.com/2vetgirls?igsh=MXhkY25oYXhqN2N2bA==

its interesting purposue

CPR & AED C Level Please, can someone tell me how many hours to take for the CPR & AED certification as required by McGill? St-John Ambulance offer different classes (16 hours, 8 hours and 4 hour classes)

Rooting for you, good luck

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