In March 2024 the CFPC launched its comprehensive governance review project, with the first phase expected to wrap up in early fall. During this period we will engage with a range of interested ...parties to address some urgent issues, scope out the parameters of the review, and reinvigorate our Governance Advisory Committee, which will play an important role in the next phases of the project. In a Commonwealth Fund survey looking at access to primary health care, Canada ranked last in a comparison of 10 high-income countries, and there is no question that we need to train more family doctors in this country. Expansion of training positions has brought the number of available family medicine residency spots to an all-time high, but more needs to be done if we want family medicine to be the specialty of choice for applicants from Canadian medical schools as well as for those who have trained abroad.
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