Canada, physicians are looking for a better balance between their personal and professional lives.
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Family doctors
CBC News Online | May 12, 2005
Canada needs more doctors.
According to a Canadian Medical Association Working Group on the Physician
Workforce, physicians are looking for a better balance between their
personal and professional lives.
In a June 2003 report, the working group pointed out that young family
physicians spend fewer hours on direct patient care than they did 20 years
ago.
In addition:
* Canada loses 200 to 250 physicians to the U.S. each year, mainly
specialists. Within 10 years, 10 per cent of a group of doctors completing
post-graduate training will have emigrated.
* Doctors in Canada worked an average of 53.8 hours per week in 2002.
This includes those working part-time. It does not include time on-call.
* Some European countries are legislating a maximum workload of 48
hours per week for physicians. If the same limit were implemented in
Canada, there would be an instant shortage of 12,780 physicians.
* The average number of physicians per 1,000 people in countries that
are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
is 2.9. In Canada, it is 2.1.
The College of Family Physicians, the Canadian Medical Association, and
the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons collaborated on the National
Physicians Survey in 2004. It found:
* Family doctors see an average of 117 patients per week during
regular hours.
* When on-call hours are included, family doctors typically work
between 70 and 80 hours per week. More than 70 per cent of family doctors
provide some type of on-call service in addition to regular hours.
* About 60 per cent of doctors said they are not routinely accepting
new patients.
* 42 per cent said they were only accepting new patients under certain
circumstances, such as friends or relatives of current patients or
referrals from another doctor.
* 18.2 per cent said they are not accepting any new patients
* Only 20.2 per cent said their practices were accepting new patients
without any restrictions.
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