{"id":165889,"date":"2023-07-10T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=165889"},"modified":"2023-07-10T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:06:01","slug":"largest-ever-medical-residency-class-in-nova-scotia-begins-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/largest-ever-medical-residency-class-in-nova-scotia-begins-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest-ever medical residency class in Nova Scotia begins training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nova Scotia saw its largest-ever medical residency class begin their training July 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A record 233 resident doctors began providing care to Nova Scotians last weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As well as a record for Dalhousie University with 77 of the resident doctors being Dalhousie medical school graduates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The province announced in October 2022 that they would fund 10 more family medicine residency spots at Dalhousie University\u2019s School of Medicine. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, 10 more spots were designated for Nova Scotians who studied medicine internationally. They must also complete a three-year return to service after their residency program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The family doctor waitlist in Nova Scotia is now at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/nova.scotia.health\/viz\/ActionforHealth-PublicReporting\/Overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nearly 150,000 people.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe do have 80 new family medicine doctors starting this year,\u201d says Minister of Health and Wellness Michelle Thompson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residency doctors have a high retention in Nova Scotia so Thompson says as they graduate and start practices, this will benefit Nova Scotians currently in need of a family doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s a number of things we are doing across a number of domains that help us retain and recruit and really make a dynamic environment for people to practice,\u201d Thompson says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One example Thompson says is Dal family medicine, which is an optimization team that goes in to help existing practices increase their efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Premier Tim Houston announced in March that the province would be<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/news\/release\/?id=20230307003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> investing $58.9 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Cape Breton University (CBU) to develop a new medical sciences building. This will house the medical school opening in 2025. CBU will train 30 doctors a year at their campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The increase in residency seats is part of the government\u2019s Action for Health Plan, designed to improve healthcare in Nova Scotia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia saw its largest-ever medical residency class begin their training July 1. A record 233 resident doctors began providing care to Nova Scotians last weekend. As well as a record for Dalhousie University with 77 of the resident doctors being Dalhousie medical school graduates.\u00a0 The province announced in October 2022 that they would fund&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":165894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,223],"tags":[27976,27975,789,9774,27974,9773],"radio":[13058],"origine":[274,300,278],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167018,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165889\/revisions\/167018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165889"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=165889"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=165889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}