Nope.
August 26, 2005 , The report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), released Wednesday, shows that 317 physicians returned to Canada last year compared to 262 who left.
- Here are some highlights from the CIHI report on doctors:
-In 2000, 420 Canadian physicians moved abroad compared to 262 in 2004, a 38 per cent decrease.
-In 2000, 256 physicians returned to Canada compared to 317 in 2004, a 24 per cent increase.
-For the first time since 1969, when statistics were first compiled, more physicians returned to Canada than left the country.
-Between 2000 and 2004, the number of doctors in Canada grew by five per cent, a rate that kept pace with population growth.
-In 2000, there were 188 physicians per 100,000 population; in 2004, there were 189 per 100,000.
-The average age of physicians increased by one year from 2000-2004, to 49.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2005/august/more_doctors_returni.php
Whoa--that is discouraging, unless they are admitting older students to start with. Ideally, a newly minted doc should be in his mid to late twenties. When you start admitting them in their thirties (which is trendy), the career life is obviously shorter. And when you encourage docs to retire as early as possible by making their lives as miserable as possible, it pays to admit young ones.