OT: 11% of Canadian Med School Grads Move to the US

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[The article doesn't explain why, but apparently the pay is much

better in the US.]

Canada a training ground for U.S. medical industry: Study

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

One in nine trained-in-Canada doctors is practising medicine in the

United States, says a study published in Tuesday's issue of the

Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The study suggests that luring back some of these Canadian

physicians would go a long way toward solving the country's doctor

shortage.

While they admit the exodus has abated a bit in the past couple of

years, the authors say the impact is as if two averaged sized

medical schools in Canada were doing nothing but training doctors

for the United States.

There are only 17 medical schools in this country.

" I must admit that I was sort of knocked over by the numbers. They

were a lot bigger than I'd anticipated, " said one of the authors,

Dr. Walter Rosser, chief of the department of family medicine at

Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

There were 8,162 Canadian-educated doctors providing direct patient

care in the U.S. in 2006, the study said