News Item – OMA warns of doctors’ shortage as Ontario cuts 50 medical residency places

Health Minister Eric Hoskins is defending the Ontario government’s decision to eliminate 50 medical residency positions when hundreds of thousands of people don’t have a family doctor.

Ontario has nearly doubled the number of first-year medical residency spots since 2004 to about 1,200 a year, and is now scaling back to make better use of scarce health care dollars, said Hoskins.

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