Each year, provincial health departments calculate how many doctors they can afford, and then sets med school admissions on that figure.
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At the same time as politicians of all stripes condemn the country’s worsening doctor shortage, it is government policy to keep that shortage in place. This is why Canadians can purchase insurance to cover emergency dental surgery, but if they get cancer they’re restricted either to getting in line – or paying cash in a U.S. hospital.Article content
called the quota system a “choke point” that “limits student admissions to just under 3,000 spots for prospective doctors each year.”Article content