Canada

This is good news. Virtually no one aside from the college wanted this change. Medical education is long enough and we don't need more barriers to becoming family physicians. In the wild old days of GPs you could practice after just a year of internship.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) says it has heard the concerns of doctors across the country who opposed plans for a third year of training, originally scheduled to start in 2027.

"We have ceased the implementation of the third year in family medicine residency training and will undertake a comprehensive review of this decision," newly elected CFPC president Dr. Michael Green wrote in a statement.

More than 91 per cent of the 2,775 physicians registered to vote at the CFPC's annual membership meeting Nov. 1 approved a motion to "immediately cease the implementation of the third year in family practice program," establish an independent review committee to present recommendations, and then decide what to do, based on evidence.

Family doctors already have the option of adding a third year to focus training on a specific area of practice, and all physicians do continuing education throughout their careers.

At a time when one in five Canadians don't have a family physician, there is concern an extra year of training would make the shortage even worse.

Yash Verma, a first-year medical student at the University of Toronto, said he and many of his classmates are happy with the decision to halt the third year.

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