The Southern Ontario Physician Recruitment Alliance (SOPRA) celebrates its first year of collaboration with 17 members dedicated to sharing resources and costs to enhance recruitment services for our communities. Over the past year, the organization has successfully attended 10 career fairs and increased physician leads by over 800 candidates. SOPRA’s job board currently lists more than 107 vacancies across Southern [...]

The CBC article discusses how London, Ontario, is struggling to recruit family doctors amid a province-wide shortage. The city has 52 empty medical offices and over 100,000 residents without primary care. Andrea Loewen, the recruitment lead for the Middlesex-London Ontario Health Team (MLOHT), highlights the intense competition to attract doctors, often won by the highest bidder. London is playing catch-up [...]

Municipalities are using different approaches to entice doctors to come to their town. That can include big signing bonuses, houses, and even golf club memberships. Host Nav Nanwa spoke to Peterborough County's healthcare advancement coordinator, Lori Richey, about how the county's offer is slightly different. LISTEN TO INTERVIEW

Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL) is short just two family physicians, according to Jill Croteau, Niagara Region Public Health’s physician recruitment specialist. Croteau presented data to NOTL councillors, revealing that the Niagara region as a whole is short 106 family doctors, with 14% of current physicians over the age of 65. While the town has made progress recruiting doctors, including 26 new [...]

Hastings County is set to join the Eastern Ontario Physician Recruitment Alliance, aiming to tackle the region's shortage of family doctors. The county’s finance committee recommended joining this collaborative effort to recruit Canadian medical students studying abroad, particularly in countries like the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., and Australia. John Nicholas, the county’s doctor-recruitment coordinator, highlighted the untapped potential of [...]