Family doctors are ‘drowning’ as Fredericton struggles to recruit – CBC
Just 1 of 44 physicians gained at Horizon Health Network last quarter employed in capital region
Aug 19, 2024
In the second quarter of this year, Horizon Health Network hired 44 new physicians in the province’s cities — but only one of them went to Fredericton.
Over the same time period, data from the regional health authority shows the capital region lost three family doctors.
Will Stymiest, a physician who also chairs the family practice section of the New Brunswick Medical Society, is not surprised by the net loss.
He said recruitment and retention has been a problem in the Fredericton area ever since he began his residency in family medicine 10 years ago.
“Over the last five years we’ve had a half dozen or more, maybe even close to a dozen, young, new, in-practice physicians who started a community family practice and have left,” he said of the doctors he has seen pass through.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/family-doctors-drowning-fredericton-1.7296381
