Millions of Canadians need a family doctor. Here’s how one B.C. recruiter attracts them – CBC
From setting up Christmas lights to planning play dates, recruiters get creative amid a family doctor shortage
May 01, 2024
Fourth-year medical student Nicole Costanzo is intensely focused on the children’s board game Operation, as she tries to scoop out one of the plastic pieces without the buzzer going off.
“That’s hard,” she says.
The stakes are low for students, residents, and physicians as they stopped by Cheryl Gnyp’s booth at the recent Rural and Remote Medicine Conference in Edmonton. But for the physician liaison for Castlegar, B.C., the pressure to find four family doctors and backfill for summer is high.
Each visit to her booth could be a potential recruit.
But Gnyp is recruiting at a time when hundreds of other recruiters across the country are also looking for physicians.
