Fallout from the recent Macleans article:
“It was a shock . . . it is scapegoating females,” said Vukin, a second-year medical student at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario.
The jump in female medical students to more than half of current enrolment is being pinpointed as a reason for the growing shortage of family doctors and specialists.
Commentators, including Dr. Brian Day, president of the Canadian Medical Association, have said it’s clear female doctors won’t work the same hours or have the same lifespan of contributions to the medical system as males.
