An extra year of training is coming for Canada's family doctors — but do they need it?

Reminds me of thar episode of Scrubs. Where an old doctor is doing an outdated and more dangerous procedure when a new one exists that has zero risk. The head of Medicine has to fire him because medicine is always evolving and you have to be ready to save lives.

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According to Fowler, the college did consultations with established family doctors, medical schools, students and residents, as well as looked at programs in other countries, to conclude two years is not enough time to learn the core skills, plus subjects such as elder care, new technologies and virtual care, mental health and addictions, and the health effects of racism and colonialism.

The first goal is to broaden the base of training and exposure so family doctors will be equipped to work anywhere in Canada — from cities to northern and rural areas, she said.

Opponents to the plan say it is more than just an academic debate; it has direct implications for patients and health-care policy — and at a time when one in five Canadians don't have access to a family doctor.

CBC News checked in with Blumenkrans again in August, after he had spent the summer working at two remote fly-in First Nations, an addictions clinic, homeless shelter and a community health centre in Toronto.

It "cannot support any extension of training" in the absence of a "well-defined, well-rationalized, evidence-based reason," said Dr. Devon Mitchell, RDoC president and a fourth-year emergency medicine resident at the University of British Columbia.

She worries decisions are being made without studying how residency training is working for doctors in rural placements, which have a much broader scope of practice than their urban counterparts.

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Canadas family doctors apparently have the shortest residency in the world.