It recognized family medicine as the speciality it is, offered competitive compensation and reduced administrative burden. It ...

The head of the Prince Edward Island College of Family Physicians thinks recruiting in Charlottetown and Summerside will become more difficult with Health PEI paying doctors under a fee-for ...

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of P.E.I. (CPSPEI) is fast-tracking its licensing process in response to COVID-19. The college implemented an emergency licensure provision to change some of ...

A hospital in Summerside, PEI, has closed its intensive care unit due to a shortage of internal medicine physicians, leaving just one medical centre in the province capable of providing the ...

Forty per cent of the family physicians in the province are planning to retire or reduce their work hours within the next ...

The president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Dr. Carrie Bernard, says doctors are talking, and are disheartened by what is happening in P.E.I. More for You.

Experts said the Lone Star State ranks 47th nationwide for patient-to-family doctor ratio. "We're about 4,800 primary care physicians short," Dr. Stephen Spann, dean of the Tilman J. Fertitta ...

A doctor wears a stethoscope around his neck as he tends to patients in his office in Rushville, Ill., on October 30, 2012. The Ontario College of Family Physicians says there are now 2.5 million ...

Michigan presently needs 862 primary care physicians, "and that's just to maintain the status quo," said Dr. Julie Phillips, chair of family medicine at MSU's College of Family Medicine, citing a ...

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) says it has heard the concerns of doctors across the country who opposed plans for a third year of training, originally scheduled to start in 2027.

ST ANDREW, Jamaica - University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI) Professor Marvin Reid, has been awarded the Fellowship Designation by the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), at the WONCA ...

The group that represents family doctors on P.E.I. worries not giving new doctors hired in Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I., a choice in how they are paid will ultimately hurt recruitment. The ...