News - Doctors

The Manitoba government’s significant investments into training and recruiting more doctors has seen a gain of 66 more physicians working in Manitoba this year, bringing the total to over 2,500 doctors.

Southern Regional Health Authority is proud to host the 2012 Family Medicine Resident Retreat to be held on September 28, 29 in Steinbach, Manitoba.

Manitoba is moving forward to train and hire more doctors and nurse practitioners, build more clinics and improve access to care as part of its plan to ensure all Manitobans have access to a family doctor by 2015.

A record number of medical students has signed up to serve in rural and northern communities that need them the most in exchange for free medical school thanks to a recently expanded doctor-recruitment initiative.

The vast majority of students graduating from the first-in-Canada physician-assistant masters training program have chosen to stay in Manitoba to use their valuable medical skills to care for patients in hospitals, clinics and other health-care settings across the province.

Doctors have ratified a new four-year agreement with the Manitoba government that will help recruit and retain more physicians in communities across the province and support the government’s plan to ensure all Manitobans have access to a family doctor by 2015.

The province is moving forward on a number of new initiatives to ensure all Manitobans who want one will have access to a family doctor by 2015, Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced.

Manitoba will introduce nurse-practitioner-led quick-care clinics and mobile clinics while expanding the successful Advanced Access care model as the first steps toward ensuring every Manitoban who wants a family doctor has one by 2015, Premier Greg Selinger announced.

Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced new resources to educate, recruit and retain more doctors with a specific focus on increasing the supply of family doctors throughout Manitoba.

There are 57 more doctors working in Manitoba this year, according to statistics from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, Health Minister Theresa Oswald said.