Physician workforce planning and boom–bust economic cycles: a retrospective on the Barer–Stoddart report

Effects of extending residencies on the supply and quality of family medicine practitioners; difference‐in‐differences evidence from the implementation of mandatory family medicine residencies in Canada

“…The majority of provinces abolished the one‐year internship in the 1990s when other major changes were being made in physician training. Provincial policies toward medical training were heavily influenced by reports suggesting that there were too many medical school graduates (Marchildon & Di Matteo, 2023). Provincial governments cut these positions by up to 10% in the years after 1991, although this did not lead to any reduction in residency positions (Dauphinee & Thurber, 1997).…”

“…Given long training times and expensive private and public investment (Government of Canada, 2009), most governments and medical organizations project physician supply decades in advance for planning purposes (Bureau of Health Professions, 2006; Dall et al., 2021). A significant amount of policy and academic discourse also centres around how to retain and improve physician supply through incentives (Ahmed & Carmody, 2020; Chan, 2002; Golden et al., 2012; Marchildon & Di Matteo, 2023). These policies usually involve increasing residency and medical school spots and incentives to retain independent physicians.…”

Correction to “Physician workforce planning and boom–bust economic cycles: a retrospective on the Barer–Stoddart report”

“…CMAJ has been made aware of an error that occurred in the Jan. 30, 2023, issue. 1 In the last paragraph on the third page of the article, the third sentence read "Governments cut back on funding for residency positions and the Medical Council of Canada placed a quota on funded residency positions for inter national medical graduates; by 2012, less than 10% of slots were available to these graduates. 9,10 " This should have read "Governments cut back on funding for residency positions and ultimately, a quota was placed on funded residency positions for international medical grad uates; eventually, by 2012, less than 10% of slots were available to these graduates.…”

Correction to “Physician workforce planning and boom–bust economic cycles: a retrospective on the Barer–Stoddart report”

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CMAJ has been made aware of an error that occurred in the Jan. 30, 2023, issue. 1 A reference was omitted from the References list in the original version of the article. "Marchildon GP, Allin S, Merkur S. Health Systems in Transition: Canada.

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