Rural Healthcare

Nurse practitioner Crystal Troup recently got a call from someone wanting an IUD. The patient’s family doctor told her she would need a referral to a gynecologist—with a six- to nine-month wait—to have the birth control device inserted.

New CMA president argues pan-Canadian licensure for physicians, reducing administrative burdens and expanding virtual care are key.

Hinton, Alta. is down to eight family physicians, half of what’s needed for the town of 10,000. And of those remaining, some are working part time or making retirement plans.

McMaster Children’s Hospital operates as a touchpoint for staff at rural hospitals to call in for expert guid-ance when a child can’t breathe.

There are dozens of health occupations that will benefit from the funding, including audiologists, dietitians, lab technologists and radiation therapists.

NOSM student, Claire Poulin, takes a deep dive into the lack of care available to pregnant patients in rural Northern Ontario.

In Lloydminster, a city on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary, Mayor Gerald Aalbers says doctors who want to work in his community are facing roadblocks.

Many of the province’s more isolated hospitals that rely on locums have been benefiting from the Temporary Locum Program, which pays them a premium.