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One of the main priorities for the new year for many local communities will be the recruitment of medical professionals.
Staffing shortages at hospitals dominated the news late 2022 and that has spilled over to 2023.
Dr. Adam Moir is with the Dryden Regional Health Centre.
“It still gets frustrating. We’re still short doctors but I do see a light at the end of the tunnel and I think the education of medical learners is integral to that. Dryden has been a community that has really welcomed medical learners.”
Dr. Moir notes working alongside the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, where he studied, is key.
“It was actually the community and their welcome that I got was a big reason why I moved to Dryden and practice here and continue to practice here.”
Dr. Moir says, “We have been on board as a community to recruit medical learners and that’s paying dividends. We’re attracting the highest quality medical learners. In the last two or three years we’ve had four medical learners who’ve won provincial or national awards. So we’re really getting the best learners and two of those learners were from our region even. So it is working. These learners are going to start coming back and working here.”
He adds the hospital has incredible staff and a beautiful facility and that goes a long way to attract new physicians.
