Accepted Type
Facilitated and Dedicated Poster
Code
LP18 - 06
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
yes
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Innovation
Will the presenter be a:
Student
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
A modern approach to physician resource planning to improve access to health care for Canadians
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
The Canadian health system is vulnerable to disruption by advances in technology, differing work expectations from incoming physicians, and increasing patient involvement. To ensure the provision of accessible and equitable health care services to Canadians, physician resource planning (PRP) will be fundamental. PRP is defined as ensuring the right mix, distribution, and number of physicians needed by society. Currently, each province follows a different approach as there is no official national oversight. This results in provincial authorities collecting and reporting data differently, with only a few that use a physician forecasting model.
Summary of the Innovation
One consequence of this disjointed approach is that Atlantic medical students have expressed as their top concern the limited access to data on the current and projected physician workforce. To address this issue, the Health Human Resource Task Force (formerly Atlantic Task Force) of the Canadian Federation of Medical Students has created a national interactive platform that uses a map of Canada, a comparison table, and a trend graph to illustrate the demand for physicians in our society. Users can filter by year, specialty, and province or territory (including regions) to personalize the most relevant data on the physician workforce amalgamated from several publicly available sources.
Conclusion
We believe that informing medical students with workforce realities during pre-clerkship will guide career choices based on both personal interests and social accountability. Our group has also identified collaboration, social accountability, and artificial intelligence as the three fundamentals to modernise physician resource planning strategy. Overall, these efforts contribute to the vision of stewardship for an integrated Canadian health care system.
Keyword 1
Physician resource planning
Keyword 2
Social accountability
Keyword 3
Stewardship
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Student Affairs
Additional Theme (First choice)
Leadership
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Physician & Medical Student Health and Well-being
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Dax Bourcier
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
