More than half of med school/residency positions reserved for foreign trainees

[I am Groot]

Medical schools claim they're training doctors as fast as they can, but what they won't point out is half their students are foreigners sponsored by their governments, most of them oil rich, who are contractually required to go back home after their training is over. Meanwhile, many hundreds of Canadian applicants are turned down despite meeting the requirements to train as doctors.

https://dominionreview.ca/feds-allow-medical-schools-to-train-foreign-doctors-while-canadian-doctors-are-turned-away/

[CdnFox]

32 minutes ago, I am Groot said:

Medical schools claim they're training doctors as fast as they can, but what they won't point out is half their students are foreigners sponsored by their governments, most of them oil rich, who are contractually required to go back home after their training is over. Meanwhile, many hundreds of Canadian applicants are turned down despite meeting the requirements to train as doctors.

https://dominionreview.ca/feds-allow-medical-schools-to-train-foreign-doctors-while-canadian-doctors-are-turned-away/

That is beyond horrible news.   I swear it's like our gov't is actively working against us. 

[ExFlyer]

Feds reduced foreign students by 35%

https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/feds-announce-two-year-cap-on-international-student-admissions-8143332

 

"foreign trainees are contractually required to go home when their residency is ove"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-nationals-medical-residency-canadians-struggle-1.6988983

Edited August 15, 2024 by ExFlyer

[blackbird]

This is just another example of why Socialism for public health care is a disaster.  The government is doing nothing to fix the system.

[WestCanMan]

13 hours ago, I am Groot said:

Medical schools claim they're training doctors as fast as they can, but what they won't point out is half their students are foreigners sponsored by their governments, most of them oil rich, who are contractually required to go back home after their training is over. Meanwhile, many hundreds of Canadian applicants are turned down despite meeting the requirements to train as doctors.

https://dominionreview.ca/feds-allow-medical-schools-to-train-foreign-doctors-while-canadian-doctors-are-turned-away/

Is this the least surprising thing imaginable under the Trudeau government?

[myata]

Incredible and outrageous. Maybe the school management and associations too could relocate right there too asap, and the entire throttling system remade from scratch?

[myata]

This is quite an absurd, grotesque situation: Canada trains doctors for rich third world countries, while importing them from the poorer ones for herself (ostensibly with some qualifications, but who can be sure, in the poorer part of the third world?) Is it objective enough picture? In what universe does it make any rational sense?

The incentives; objectives, the management structure, funding arrangements: it all seems to be wrong, upside down. And this why we are seeing these grotesque episodes. The primary objective and incentives for management of Canadian universities is now to make dough; training specialists for the country comes second.

But schools are not private businesses, their managers aren't CEOs. Canadian problems with transparent and effective management of public functions and institutes go very deep indeed.

 

[I am Groot]

6 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Is this the least surprising thing imaginable under the Trudeau government?

I'm as anti Trudeau as the next guy but this has been going on for years. And the provinces are just as guilty. They could forbid this or cut down on the numbers and they won't.

[NAME REMOVED]

9 hours ago, blackbird said:

This is just another example of why Socialism for public health care is a disaster.  The government is doing nothing to fix the system.

You have the worst opinions on the forum.

[blackbird]

22 hours ago, I am Groot said:

Medical schools claim they're training doctors as fast as they can, but what they won't point out is half their students are foreigners sponsored by their governments, most of them oil rich, who are contractually required to go back home after their training is over. Meanwhile, many hundreds of Canadian applicants are turned down despite meeting the requirements to train as doctors.

https://dominionreview.ca/feds-allow-medical-schools-to-train-foreign-doctors-while-canadian-doctors-are-turned-away/

Why is Canada training doctors for other countries?  We have a severe shortage here.  Does the government really know what it is doing?

Wonder if the medical associations control the number of doctors trained.  That is something we don't hear anything about.