Canada faces a dangerous shortage of medical doctors, leaving approximately five million Canadians without access to primary care providers in 2022. Simultaneously, internationally-trained physicians (ITPs) struggle to meet unnecessarily burdensome requirements to practice medicine in Canada. Foreign-trained doctors must undergo eight cumbersome steps to obtain a Canadian medical license—as opposed[Read More…]
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Hot science tickets for a cold month
The Science and Technology team at The Tribune have gathered around our fall campfires to bring you the best of McGill’s upcoming science-related talks and events this November. Hand on My Heart: A Journey of Healing and Impact Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 – 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Coming up[Read More…]
The discriminatory disarray of Quebec’s health-care system
Over 800,000 Quebecers are currently looking for a new primary care physician in their area. Wait times to find one can extend to more than two years in Montreal, where the population faces one of the worst health-care accessibility crises in the country. This issue directly results from Quebec’s poor[Read More…]
