'Last two years with the pandemic have been very hard on family physicians. We've seen a lot of work downloaded to family docs and a lot of burnout,' says Dr. Stephen Viherjoki, OMA chair for the Northwest
THUNDER BAY - Just over 40 per cent of spots for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University's family medicine program were filled during the first round of residency matching last month.
She said NOSM University is one of the medical schools which does the best at producing family doctors, noting the rural generalist pathway, which they've put into effect. However, she said there’s a decline in interest in family medicine in the entire country, which is between 20-29 per cent of graduating classes and is still going down.
Viherjoki said one possibility for the unfilled spots, which might indicate a reduced preference, is the additional pressure on family doctors over the last few years. Dr. Sarah Newbery, rural generalist family physician in Marathon and the associate dean of physician workforce strategy at NOSM University, said more work is needed to understand clearly what all the issues are that went into the low match rate.
“I think we have a lot of work to do to better support that new graduate transition,” she said, adding there is a lot of work that needs to go into better supporting family physicians in practice as well.
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