I would be very careful about a full-salaried model. I know our geriatrics groups have been on full salary for dozens of years, and what you see over time is a loss of incentives to do more clinical work. What the Province of Ontario is now looking at is a blended model where you have a base salary so people are attracted to the field, but then you have to do fee for service to move yourself up. So full salary I think has real drawbacks. Fee for service has perhaps even bigger drawbacks. So a blended model would be preferable.
On October 17th, 2011. See this statement in context.