B.C. offers cash to entice graduates to work as family doctors

Cindy E. Harnett  •  Victoria Times Colonist – Jun 21, 2022 

About 175 new family practice resident graduates are being offered lucrative contracts, loan forgiveness, and $25,000 signing bonuses if they sign on by September to work as family doctors in B.C.

At a time when one in five British Columbians or close to one million say they do not have a family doctor, Dix said the province is stepping up with urgency to give new doctors the contracts many want to stay and work in the province.

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