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The Canadian Resident Matching Service says 1,627 graduates from medical schools will become family medicine residents this summer, an increase from 1,529 last year.

The Canadian Resident Matching Service says 1,627 graduates from medical schools will become family medicine residents this summer, an increase from 1,529 last year

The Canadian Resident Matching Service says 1,627 graduates from medical schools will become family medicine residents this summer, an increase from 1,529 last year.

A shortage of physicians has prompted provinces to establish new medical schools at the University of Prince Edward Island, Simon Fraser University and Toronto Metropolitan University in the next few years. They will feature a new model of education where students train in the communities where they'll hopefully serve after graduation.

A clinical biochemist in Halifax concerned about a global shortage of blood collection tubes is urging health-care providers and patients to be careful about how they use limited lab supplies.