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Jane Philpott Profile picture
Jane Philpott
@janephilpott
Personal account. Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's University. CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization.
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Mar 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
268 unfilled residency positions in family medicine in the CaRMS match yesterday. Highest number ever.

We have a serious problem to manage together. Why are med students not choosing a career as a family doc (best specialty ever😀)?

Many reasons - some of it is on us...🧵 That is, some of it is on med schools and the hidden curriculum which teaches that family medicine is a less desirable choice.

But more importantly, it's about the primary care system which needs a radical overhaul.

We need to create/build a new approach to primary care...
Dec 30, 2018 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
10 (of many) stories in my portfolio that made me happy in 2018:

1. We worked with First Nations, Inuit & the Metis Nation to develop federal legislation about keeping families together (to be tabled in January)
aptnnews.ca/2018/11/30/no-… 2. Last month I had the opportunity to speak at the @AFN_Updates Special Chiefs Assembly about our work to support children & families
cpac.ca/en/programs/cp…