B.C. gets its first new medical school since 1950, but it won’t magically solve the doctors shortage
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B.C. gets its first new medical school since 1950, but it won’t magically solve the doctors shortage
ANDRÉ PICARD
HEALTH COLUMNIST
PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO
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Family physician Dr. Robert O’Connor, of Metchosin, B.C., joins a demonstration in Victoria in 2022 advocating for more doctors in the province.
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The University of British Columbia School of Medicine opened in 1950, with a cohort of 60 students. (It now…
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