SFU’s new medical school no blanket solution to healthcare crisis: Doctors of BC

The organization that represents physicians in the province warns that the new medical school at Simon Fraser University (SFU) is only one piece of a larger puzzle to solve the healthcare crisis in B.C.

Charlene Lui, the president of Doctors of BC, says that SFU’s new school will help to elevate the family doctor shortage.

However, she notes how much time will pass between the first generation of students being accepted to the medical school and them joining the healthcare workforce.

“Unfortunately, it will take years for the first graduates to join the workforce,” she said.

“Because our healthcare system is so complex, even with the addition of the doctors in this medical school, B.C. will still, unfortunately, continue to experience physician shortages in the foreseeable future.”

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