If the stock market improves I think there will be a sudden shortage of physicians, because many of them are still practising beyond normal retirement age. That is a significant current issue.
The number of 2,800 is not enough to have national self-sufficiency in our supply of physicians. Of Canada's medical workforce, 25% trained outside of Canada, and that has been the case for a long time. So if we want national self-sufficiency, we probably need to have an intake or at least a medical school output of well over 3,000 per year, and a suitable number of residency positions to fully train and certify those individuals.