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An organization that represents Ontario doctors is expressing concern about what it says is a declining number of medical school students choosing family medicine.

New schools are ‘one piece in the puzzle’ to solve family doctor crisis, but physicians also need better compensation, family health teams and money to support doctors teaching students.

New schools are ‘one piece in the puzzle’ to solve family doctor crisis, but physicians also need better compensation, family health teams and money to support doctors teaching students.

The number of students who are looking at fields outside of family medicine is a growing issue, according to the Ontario Medical Association

Ask was $20-million, the province gave $2.2 million to transform family medicine in Hamilton, Haldimand and Niagara Northwest

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There will be roughly 100,000 people in Hamilton and some 4.4 million people in Ontario without a family doctor in 2026 if the provincial health-care system doesn’t improve, according to the Ontario College of Family Physicians.

Depending on where you live in this country, there's a between one-in-three and one-in-six chance that you don't have a family doctor.

Not having a family doctor put patients at greater risk and renders the health-care system less efficient than it could be, an expert says