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There's growing opposition to making family doctor training longer (www.cbc.ca)
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The College of Family Physicians of Canada is being asked to "pause, hold and maybe stop" its plans to increase the time it takes to train a family doctor from two years to three โ€” as some medical students, family doctors and provincial health ministers express their opposition.

"Our class, the class of 2027, is going to be the first that's impacted by this change in residency length," said Yash Verma, a first-year medical student at the University of Toronto.

"It feels like that's something that's out of our control and that we have no power to change at all."

Verma said he first heard about the plan from CBC News in September. Alarmed, he asked his classmates for their thoughts.

He says he heard a recurring theme: "If this third year were to happen, they would not become family doctors."

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