tenfive Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Man - I just checked, and Neurology has lost several spots at some of the better centres. 1 from McGill, UWO, UBC. Has anybody ever heard of a program losing spots? I thought, if anything, spots go up from year to year.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutieYellow Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Lots of specialties have lost spots in favour of increasing spots in Family Med. At least that's the case in Quebec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenfive Posted October 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Well, clearly they have no problem with ignoring what we want. It's pretty shortsighted on their part, though. They aren't going to force med students into specialties they don't want to do. We're not idiots - we didn't work all this time just to settle. I think people will sooner leave the country than to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Wow, my favorite specialties keep losing spots every year. Great ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutieYellow Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Well it's always easy to be upset and say that they are ignoring our opinions, but truth of the matter is, not everyone can be satisfied. If that was the case, you'd have way too many orthopedic surgeons, too many dermatologists, etc. You have to limit it somewhere or else they won't have any jobs when they come out, which isn't much better. Plus family med in Qc is very much in demand, last year, a bunch of people were refused family med and were thus thrown into Internal as a result, which isn't much better of a predicament for them. It's easy to judge and say... give me all the positions back... but in a society, in order for it to function, it's just not possible. CY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenfive Posted October 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 "Well it's always easy to be upset and say that they are ignoring our opinions, but truth of the matter is, not everyone can be satisfied." Of course not everybody can be satisfied, but there's no reason that we can't try to satisfy as many people as possible. I have no doubt that this move is in the opposite direction. "If that was the case, you'd have way too many orthopedic surgeons, too many dermatologists, etc." Are you kidding? With waitlists up to a year to see subspecialists, there's no reason to think that we're at any risk of having a surplus. Also, roughly 30-50% of students still choose family med - still making the most popular, by far. "Plus family med in Qc is very much in demand, last year, a bunch of people were refused family med and were thus thrown into Internal as a result, which isn't much better of a predicament for them." That might be the case in Quebec, but in general, we all know that the second iteration is usually filled with far more family medicine spots than subspecialty spots (proportionately). Family medicine spots are not in short supply compared to specialty spots. "It's easy to judge and say... give me all the positions back... but in a society, in order for it to function, it's just not possible. " I don't see how I'm "judging" anything - I am expressing an opinion, and one that many other med students agree with. I didn't come all this way to do something that I don't want to do. And considering that, relatively speaking, we're far shorter on specialty spots than on family spots, I think it's pretty fair to criticise these changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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