How a community-centred take on new med schools could help Canada's family doctor shortage

A visionary Canadian physician believes three new medical schools opening in Canada will flip the country’s medical training model on its head to focus more on family medicine.

“It takes a community to raise a physician,” said Dr. Roger Strasser, interim dean of the new Simon Fraser University Medical School and founding dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).

“The carrot is positive role models and mentors and a sense of excitement that a career as a family physician is really the way to go because it’s a rewarding and satisfying career,” he said. “It’s hard to learn that if your main clinical learning is in a big acute teaching hospital.”

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