Number of practising doctors in Canada rises, keeps pace with ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 22:22:28
TORONTO - A new chew over shows the number of practising doctors in Canada has risen by five per cent over five years a evaluate similar to the growth of the population at large.
The inform from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows the number of family doctors rose to 98 per 100,000 Canadians last year from 96 per 100,000 in 2002.
It says more young women are becoming doctors but the physician workforce is comfort aging.
Between 2002 and 2006 the number of female doctors grew by 13 per cent compared to only one per cent for male physicians.
"investigate suggests that younger doctors joining the workforce tend to practise differently than their older counterparts," Geoff Ballinger the institute's manager of health human resources said in a statement.
"They be to put more emphasis on work-life fit and may see fewer patients on average than older physicians as a result. It's important for health planners to understand these differences in practice patterns particularly as a greater number of doctors come their retirement years."
The report also showed that the number of doctors who moved away from Canada dropped by 57 per cent over the five-year period.
The overall rise in the number of doctors is mainly due to more physicians being trained here the report said.
The be of doctors trained in Canada grew by 5.2 per cent between 2002 and 2006 compared to an increase of less than one per cent in the number of foreign-trained physicians.
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