abcwxyz Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 So... with the great increase of med students over the next 2 years (added to those from the past couple of years), have residency spots correspondingly increased/increasing? I mean across the board, not just in family practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJ Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Yeah, but one would hope that they would increase specialty positions too. Things might start to get highly competitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Yeah, but one would hope that they would increase specialty positions too. Things might start to get highly competitive. hehehe as opposed to the situation right now There is a lot of political pressure on getting more family doctors. I suspect they will focus there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcwxyz Posted June 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Id guess the increase is going to be skewed heavily towards family medicine. A completely political move. Yes, this is what I was worried about. I was just wondering if there was anyone who has computed how residency spots have increased in the past few years in specialty vs. family and knows how they are projected to increase in the future (and I do realize that family doesn't fill anyway, so maybe residency spots didn't increase at all?). I guess I could find all of this out by going to the Carms website.... but maybe someone knew off the top of their head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJ Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Yes, this is what I was worried about. I was just wondering if there was anyone who has computed how residency spots have increased in the past few years in specialty vs. family and knows how they are projected to increase in the future (and I do realize that family doesn't fill anyway, so maybe residency spots didn't increase at all?). I guess I could find all of this out by going to the Carms website.... but maybe someone knew off the top of their head. Okay, so here's the percent of family med positions in the following years (for all canadian med schools): 2008: http://www.carms.ca/pdfs/2008R1_MatchResults/4Registration%20and%20Quota%20by%20Medical%20School_en.pdf 40.4% 2007: http://www.carms.ca/pdfs/2007MatchResults/Registration_and_Quota_by_Medical_School_en.pdf 39.1 % 2006: http://www.carms.ca/eng/operations_R1reports_06_e.shtml#table4 39% 2005: http://www.carms.ca/eng/operations_R1reports_05_e.shtml#table14 39% 2004: http://www.carms.ca/eng/operations_R1reports_04_e.shtml#table14 38% So, on the overall, pretty constant with a tendency to increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLengr Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 There are widespread shortages in most areas, not just family medicine. I expect that they'll try to spread it around as best they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wut? Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 So... with the great increase of med students over the next 2 years (added to those from the past couple of years), have residency spots correspondingly increased/increasing? I mean across the board, not just in family practice. Don't forget that AB, MB, and QC have also now opened up round 1 of CaRMS to IMGs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Isn't there a ton of spots already unfilled in FM? Why increase them further? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Don't forget that AB, MB, and ON (may be incorrect on the last one) have also now opened up round 2 of CaRMS to IMGs. Round 2 has always been open to IMGs. I think you mean round 1. There are reserved spots for IMGs though, so they don't directly compete with CMGs for spots in round 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wut? Posted June 9, 2009 Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 Round 2 has always been open to IMGs. I think you mean round 1. There are reserved spots for IMGs though, so they don't directly compete with CMGs for spots in round 1. Round 1, my mistake. However, in AB, MB and QC IMGs match in the same pool as CMGs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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