Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Medical students sticking around
More graduates to practise here
HOPES are high Manitoba will eventually retain more physicians after a record number of medical graduates decided to stay in the province.The University of Manitoba's faculty of medicine confirmed 62 of 100 medical students set to graduate this year plan to finish their postgraduate training here -- up from just 38 graduates in 2008 and 52 last year.
Fourth-year medical students rank their choices and can apply for a postgraduate training spot anywhere in Canada, competing with students from 17 Canadian medical schools for positions. The Canadian Resident Matching Service then links grad students with a position through two rounds of matching.
Dr. Ira Ripstein, associate dean of the U of M's postgraduate medical program, said the match is great news, since where students complete their residency training is the best predictor of where they will eventually practise medicine.
He said local graduates filled all 15 of the training positions in northern and remote Manitoba, while another nine students will train in family medicine in rural areas. Twenty-five graduates matched to family medicine training programs will stay in Manitoba.
"It's the best we've ever done," Ripstein said. "Where you do your residency is the strongest indicator of where you end up practising."
Ripstein said some students choose to train elsewhere in Canada, and the U of M doesn't track how many eventually come back to practise in Manitoba.
He said it's important that there is a mix of residents from universities across Canada and abroad to get a "cross breeding" of ideas in medicine.
Medical graduates spend at least two years completing their residency training in hospital settings in order to get a licence to practise family medicine.
Others pursue specialty fields, such as emergency medicine or dermatology, for four to six years before they can apply for a licence.
In 2007, the majority of the province's medical graduates left Manitoba, including 13 students who wanted to stay to train but didn't get residency positions.
The situation sparked ire from critics who said the university was handing training spots over to international medical graduates who are more likely to leave Manitoba.
In 2010, 98 per cent of students were matched to positions in the first round. Two Manitoba graduates didn't get a residency position in the first round of matching.
A total of 62 per cent of graduates will stay and train in the province.
jen.skerritt@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 10, 2010 A4
-
WFP Hockey
Download our new hockey app for the iPhone for Winnipeg Jets updates
-
Editor's Bulletin
Sign up for daily bulletins from editor Margo Goodhand
-
Winnipeg Jets
All things NHL on our Jets landing page
-
Twitter
Follow our reporters and our news feeds on Twitter
-
News Cafe
Check out the menu, read our blog posts or get info on coming events
-
Facebook Fanpage
Follow our Facebook Fanpage for story links, contests and special events
Ads by Google
- Back to Top
- Return to Local
Poll
Most Popular
- Tactical squad storms St. Vital house
- 'This is so silly': Mom and Dad tell story of baby Zade, born on side of Highway 59
- Woman sexually assaulted during noon-hour in Exchange District
- Stobbe said someone else came into yard: witness
- Police seize $1-M worth of drugs in raid; 7 arrested
- Caterpillar shuts Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., where workers locked out
- Sisters spoke hours before death
- Saskatchewan couple guilty of neglect after girl starved, kept in basement
- Alouettes hire former Bombers head coach Reinebold as defensive co-ordinator
- Stunning finish to murder trial
- George Clooney's prank could end Pitt's career
- Minor earthquake strikes near Manitoba
- An inside look into the Shafia case; police tell how the killers were caught
- Woman sexually assaulted during noon-hour in Exchange District
- Nick Carter's sister dies
- Two armed men rob store at Grant Park Shopping Centre
- Should Ottawa increase the Old Age Security age of eligibility to 67?
- Bystanders help security guard being beaten by grocery thieves
- Smith injured after transit fare protest
- Sledder given grim mission after death on snomo trail
- Do you smoke marijuana?
- Driver dead after SUV goes over Disraeli Bridge
- George Clooney's prank could end Pitt's career
- Driver killed in head-on crash with ambulance
- Shot in the eye, woman insists on finishing beer
- Minor earthquake strikes near Manitoba
- Tina Maze strips down to her sports bra to send out underwear message: 'Not your business'
- Group's speed-limit sign removed from Pembina Highway
- Car's plunge off Disraeli fatal
- Kate Beckinsale's weight fears over Underworld catsuit
- Swedish bunny's sheep herding skills becomes click-monster on YouTube
- 'This is so silly': Mom and Dad tell story of baby Zade, born on side of Highway 59
- Polar bear cub rescued after mother rejected him introduced at Toronto Zoo
- McKesson and Target announce big moves in Canada's drug store industry
- Caterpillar shuts Electro-Motive plant in London, Ont., where workers locked out
- Tactical squad storms St. Vital house
- Former NHL player Fred Sasakamoose recalls abuse at residential school
- Wake up to the fact your body needs sleep
- Province giving that freezing feeling
- Education faculties should disappear
- Minor earthquake strikes near Manitoba
- Paddler Starkell was modern-day voyageur
- Swedish bunny's sheep herding skills becomes click-monster on YouTube
- Mom banned after battle with school
- Paddler trekked from Winnipeg to Amazon
- An inside look into the Shafia case; police tell how the killers were caught
- Your choice of smartphone reveals a lot about your dating habits: survey
- City teacher facing sex charge
- End of an oasis: neighbourhood's food desert grows
- 'This is so silly': Mom and Dad tell story of baby Zade, born on side of Highway 59
- Minor earthquake strikes near Manitoba
- Shot in the eye, woman insists on finishing beer
- Paddler Starkell was modern-day voyageur
- Driver dead after SUV goes over Disraeli Bridge
- Car's plunge off Disraeli fatal
- Local shooting spoofed on SNL
- Winnipeg mother watches as car stolen with child inside
- Canadian woman 'badly injured' in Mexico, local media report apparent beating
- Swedish bunny's sheep herding skills becomes click-monster on YouTube
- 4 dead in northern Ontario plane crash
“I recall a trip to Boston where we visited "the north end" (sort of an old part of town similar to the exchange district but better developed). There were beat cops everywhere and I have to say I really felt safe there. I don't know if we need 24 hour beat cops but it would be nice if they scheduled beat cops when there are events downtown that run later than their normal beat shifts.”
Posted by: Everybody Up
Article: Police officers walking the beat
You can comment on most stories on winnipegfreepress.com. You can also agree or disagree with other comments. All you need to do is register and/or login and you can join the conversation and give your feedback.
The Winnipeg Free Press does not necessarily endorse any of the views posted. By submitting your comment, you agree to our Terms and Conditions. These terms were revised effective April 16, 2010; View the changes. New to commenting? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions.