Originally Posted by Axeman

The biggest problem with the Canadian system is caused by the American system. Canada's biggest issues is a shortage in doctors because we train them and then they head south as specialists for the big money in the for profit system. Couple that with the fact the US refused to build more medical schools to meet their demand in house, has cause a huge need to import their doctors from elsewhere. This is being slowly rectified as states are now green lighting more medical schools to meet their own demand.

Also in Canada we train a lot more GP's than the US does as most doctors in the US chase the gold as specialists. So the GP's we train up here eventually get filtered off to be GP's down south.

Canada needs to increase wages a bit to keep doctors and nurses here, but also I think a law needs to be put in place that if your trained in Canada you have to give X amount of years back to the country. Some will choose to go down south to do their medical school but with the lack of schools there, they may not get in anyway.