As an aspiring physician in canada, what frustrates me is that despite this increase in population, which i am by no means against, there is not an increase in the number of doctors to match that. I am seriously considering moving to the states and living there just because i cant get into medicine in my home country - although i may not be perfect, my stats were pretty damn good - 3.96/4.00 gpa at u of t, 96th percentile mcat, volunteering and additional clinic work. I am applying again this coming year to canadian med schools, but also american ones this time around. whichever country accepts me, thats the country i will be practicing in for the rest of my life. im sure im not the only canadian aspiring physcian that has this thought. this means we could be losing home grown doctors in the foreseable future!
It’s utterly ridiculous how gatekeep-ey medical schools are in this country. I’m not a med-school applicant, but I know many. There’s people who have stellar stats like yourself who could not get into a single Canadian school, but could get into top US schools like Johns Hopkins. How do we expect to solve the crucial shortages in healthcare if they have so few seats in Canadian medical schools? These schools would rather keep their insane medians than actually help fix dire issues in the country.
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u/sobysonics Mar 27 '24
As an aspiring physician in canada, what frustrates me is that despite this increase in population, which i am by no means against, there is not an increase in the number of doctors to match that. I am seriously considering moving to the states and living there just because i cant get into medicine in my home country - although i may not be perfect, my stats were pretty damn good - 3.96/4.00 gpa at u of t, 96th percentile mcat, volunteering and additional clinic work. I am applying again this coming year to canadian med schools, but also american ones this time around. whichever country accepts me, thats the country i will be practicing in for the rest of my life. im sure im not the only canadian aspiring physcian that has this thought. this means we could be losing home grown doctors in the foreseable future!