B.C. mayor gets calls from across Canada about ‘crazy’ plan to recruit doctors
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The mayor of the suburban Victoria community of Colwood says he’s getting calls from municipal leaders across Canada who have heard about his community’s “out-of-the-box” plan to recruit family doctors as city workers.
Mayor Doug Kobayashi announced this week that Colwood has hired its first family doctor for a city-operated medical clinic, and the community is looking to hire seven more under the first-in-Canada pilot project.
Kobayashi says some people called the plan “crazy,” but now it’s receiving interest from other communities across the country that are also suffering shortages of family medics.
He says the Colwood initiative is appealing to family doctors because recruits become part of a supportive team with a focus on well-being, rather than the business of running a clinic.
