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D G Fish

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PubMed1970

Canadian-trained physicians in United States internships and residencies: "Operation Retrieval" and Report of Statistics, 1966-1968.

In response to a shortage of medical teachers and scientists, A.C.M.C. began "Operation Retrieval" in 1967 in an effort to contact and to survey graduates of Canadian medical schools who are interns and residents in the United States. This paper describes the publications produced for these graduates, and the concerns of graduates as discovered by on-site visits to Los Angeles, Boston and New York. These concerns centre around difficulties in communication with Canada. This paper also gives a statistical report on the numbers of graduates who are interns and residents in the United States, and the locations, fields of specialization and years of graduation of residents. The decreasing numbers are believed to reflect improving Canadian facilities as well as difficulties associated with the American military draft.

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PubMed1970

Canadian and landed immigrant applicants to Canadian medical schools for 1968-69.

There were 2337 Canadian and Landed Immigrant applicants for the fall 1968 entering classes at Canadian medical schools. These applicants filed a total of 4579 applications.The results of this study show that there are regional differences in the quantity and quality of the applicant pool for Canadian medical schools. The study also shows that despite the fact that Canadian and landed immigrant applicants are filing more applications than they have in the past two years, there has been no appreciable change in the ratio of applicants to available places. A further point to be noted is that the participation of women both as applicants to and as medical students in the entering class of 1968-69 at Canadian medical schools was higher than in previous years.

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PubMed1967

The premedical education of the first-year class in Canadian medical schools: 1965-66.

The premedical academic records of the 1965-66 entering class of Canadian medical students were analysed. Ninety-six per cent of the class had taken their preparation in a Canadian institution, while 80% had taken it in the same university as the medical school in which they enrolled. Forty per cent entered without a degree, the remainder having at least a bachelor's degree in arts or science.Thirty-six per cent of all courses taken by these students in their premedical education were in the physical sciences, 22% in the biological sciences and 41% in the social sciences and humanities. One-third of the students had taken no course in the behavioural sciences and another third had taken only one course.Analysis of the level of performance of the entering class showed that 10% had obtained an A average, 49% a B average, 41% a C average and 3% a D average. The grades of these students were higher generally in the natural sciences than in the social sciences or humanities.It was concluded that it could be questioned whether medical students received a premedical preparation which met the philosophy of a "broad, liberal education".

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PubMed1967

Medical education. I. Medical students in Canadian Universities: report of statistics, 1966-67.

Enrolment in the 13 Canadian medical schools in 1966-67 reached a new high of 4230, an increase of 5.1% over 1965-66. The percentage of women among medical students (12.1%) was close to that of the preceding three years. There has been a levelling off in the decline of students from outside Canada in 1966-67, when 9.5% of medical students were non-Canadian. The decline had been primarily in the number of American students, which continues. The number of students from Commonwealth countries has shown a steady increase during the eight-year period under review; in 1966-67, they make up nearly one-half of all non-Canadian students. It was noted that 18.5% of overseas students came to Canada under governmental or intergovernmental sponsorship. Of the Canadian students, 94% came from the "home" provinces of the medical schools.

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PubMed1967

Applicants to Canadian medical schools for 1966-67.

An examination of applicants to Canadian medical schools for 1966-67 revealed that 4534 applications were received for the approximately 974 available places. The number of Canadian applications was 2866 and these were made by 1815 individual applicants, an increase of 48 over 1965-66. United States applicants declined from 1143 to 1013.Evaluations made by the schools concerning the acceptability of the Canadian applicants disclosed that 55 applicants who rated as "acceptable" by one or more schools failed to gain admission to any medical school in 1966-67 (as compared to 36 in 1965-66). However, of those applicants who did find a place 76 were evaluated as "marginal" or "unacceptable", while another 126 were rated as "acceptable" by one school but "marginal" and/or "acceptable" by one or more other schools.These results were interpreted to imply that the Canadian medical schools were still experiencing difficulty in attracting well-qualified applicants for study in medicine.

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PubMed1966

Canadian-trained medical scientists view Canadian academia from their American laboratories.

Interviews with 98 Canadian-trained basic medical scientists currently employed in the United States reveal that they were attracted to the United States by the belief that greater career opportunities exist in the United States than in Canada.THEY ATTRIBUTED THE FAILURE ON THE PART OF CANADA TO ATTRACT SCIENTISTS TO CANADA AND TO RETAIN THEIR OWN GRADUATES TO: (1) Poor recruiting methods and a failure on the part of Canadian employees to keep in touch with Canadian scientists in American graduate and postgraduate training positions. (2) Scarcity of research funds. (3) Lack of opportunity in Canada occasioned by the smaller number of medical schools and medical research institutions as compared to the United States. (4) The negative conservatism of Canadian academic circles occasioned by academic inbreeding, anti-Semitism, Anglophilia and the tight control of research, research funds and university appointments by an oldguard "establishment".

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PubMed1966

A comparison of applicants and applications to Canadian medical and dental schools, 1965-66.

A collation and analysis of the applications and applicants to Canadian medical and dental schools for 1965-66 showed that the ratio of applications to the number of places available was 5.3 to 1 for medical schools, and 4.7 to 1 for dental schools.Sixty-seven per cent of the Canadians who applied to a dental school did not find a place, in contrast to the 47% of those who applied to a medical school and were not successful.One hundred and forty-one applicants (4.3% of the total applicants to medical schools and 10.9% of total applicants to dental schools) had applied to both medical and dental schools. Almost 50% of these "dual applicants" were not accepted by either a medical or dental school. Thirty-five applicants were accepted at both dental and medical schools and all but three of these elected to enrol at a medical school.

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