BC Medical President Optimistic UNBC Medical Grads Will Stay In The Rural Areas
By 250 News
Friday, February 22, 2013 04:00 AM
Prince George, B.C. - The President of the BC Medical Association, Dr. Shelley Ross, says she is optimistic that future graduating classes of UNBC?? medical students will choose to live and work in the north.
Ross said her optimism comes from a visit to the program at UNBC where she talked with students who come from rural areas, and want to return to their roots.
"You must keep in mind that many of the students who have graduated from the UNBC medical program have gone on to the specialties and the true test will come when they graduate this year and we see where they are taking up residency" says Dr. Ross.
She says? it is critical that?students from the rural areas are enrolled in the program at UNBC "because studies have found that people who come from the rural parts of the province return to their families and friends regardless of whether they are from Ft St James, Vanderhoof or Dawson Creek."
Speaking of Dawson Creek, Dr Ross says three quarters of the doctors who are practising in Dawson Creek are from South Africa and that source of doctors is no longer available. The average age of the doctors in Dawson Creek is 50 for the general practitioner and 55 for those practising in the specialties.
"We need 300 new doctors a year in BC to make up for this upcoming problem" says Dr. Ross,? "The new generation does not want to work as hard as their old counterparts, not that there is anything wrong with that" Dr Ross added "but that means we need more people in the system."
Dr Ross is on a province wide tour, speaking and talking to the profession and members of the public.
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