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Health committee It's a tricky question. I think, ultimately, it's something that should be looked at, but it also depends on how that's done. The provinces in and of themselves know their context best, or should, and they should be collaborating with the specific regions, the communities and the
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee I can absolutely answer the six questions, yes. I appreciate it. When it comes to how the actual residency matching process works, essentially in our final year of medical school we go through an electives process where we choose specific locations and programs that we want to v
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee That is at the provincial government's discretion. Essentially how it works is there is supposed to be a health and human resources allocation for these spots where they look at the needs of the communities, the need for specific types of physicians in those places as well as pre
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee Absolutely, and, yes, Santanna had to step out. She actually had to get to another space to talk about this exact issue. When it comes to engaging residents and medical students in more rural areas, ultimately if you look at it from the perspective of “as early up in the pipeli
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee Yes, absolutely. It was in regard to the point about unmatched graduates in our country. That is a significant piece of burnout for students. Imagine going through all of the necessary stages to get into medical school, being in the single digits of people who get in, and then
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee Yes, very enthusiastic head nodding. Thank you.
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee I can speak to that. It's a fantastic question. I am someone who wants to go into family medicine, so maybe I'll be biased towards this. Santanna is as well. It's a very good question and something that, as we've been talking about, is very specific to the region and to the peo
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee If you want to explore that question, you can ask Santanna.
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee Finally, both preventative and reactive mental health supports need urgent funding. In our 2017 CFMS member survey, it was reported that around 37% of Canadian medical students meet the criteria for burnout. This is a staggering figure, and even more frightening is that it is a p
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett
Health committee Perhaps there can be confusion on how those issues impact students and what components are missing that impact us as learners, so I want to take a few minutes to break this down for the members of the committee. One thing that is top of mind for all medical learners is the resi
April 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Montana Hackett