“We ask, ‘How do I help the whole person and how do I help the family?’ If you like that level of complexity, not dealing with just one system or one organ, then this is a field for you.”
“I think that what gets lost is that there are a lot of diseases that have a prevalence rate with seniors and with the Baby Boomers coming forward, the demands are soaring.”
The report analyzed data on all fee-for-service care provided to patients aged 65 and older from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s National Physician Database.
New findings from the Royal College’s employment study, the follow-up to the 2013 report that alerted the country to the employment challenges faced by many new specialists.
Indigenous health will soon be a core component of postgraduate medical education. Find out how the Indigenous Health PGME Implementation Steering Committee is approaching this work.
Find out more about an eConsult service that is transforming how patients access the specialist community. Already, close to 30,000 cases have been completed without a face-to-face specialist appointment.
