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Article: Letter to the editor.
- Article from:
- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Medical school "urgently" required
For the past 10 years, I have had the privilege of acting as the program director for the Northeastern Ontario Family Medicine Program and I have visited medical teaching practices across Northern Ontario. Graduating medical students must complete two years of clinical training known as "residency" before they can open their own family practice. Specialists require four to six years of residency training.
Currently 16 students per year enter the northeastern residency program. Every year about 100 to 140 students from across Canada apply to our rural, community based program. The competition is intense.
I am ...