Increased proportion of family medicine residents did not want to be family physicians: An unrecognized crisis in primary care

Affiliations

¹ Public health and family physician in Ottawa, Ont. He is also Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Bruyère Health Research Institute in Ottawa, and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Social Accountability.
² Clinical research coordinator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
³ Family physician, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, Clinician Researcher at the Institut du Savoir Montfort in Ottawa, and a doctoral candidate at Western University in London, Ont.
⁴ Chair and Full Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Clinician Investigator at C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre at the Bruyère Research Institute, and Co-Executive Director of the Ontario eConsult Centre of Excellence.
⁵ Clinician Investigator with the Bruyère Research Institute and Associate Dean of Social Accountability at the University of Ottawa.

Daniel Myran et al. Can Fam Physician. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun;71(6):383-387.

doi: 10.46747/cfp.7106383.

¹ Public health and family physician in Ottawa, Ont. He is also Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Bruyère Health Research Institute in Ottawa, and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Social Accountability.
² Clinical research coordinator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
³ Family physician, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, Clinician Researcher at the Institut du Savoir Montfort in Ottawa, and a doctoral candidate at Western University in London, Ont.
⁴ Chair and Full Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Clinician Investigator at C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre at the Bruyère Research Institute, and Co-Executive Director of the Ontario eConsult Centre of Excellence.
⁵ Clinician Investigator with the Bruyère Research Institute and Associate Dean of Social Accountability at the University of Ottawa.

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