Jonathon Herriot

We also need to train family med residents & medical students in clinical teaching environments that promote interest and excitement in comprehensive family medicine, rather than scaring them away. Most of the family docs I know love their work and more trainees need to see this during training.

The solutions are multifactorial, but if we look to the areas of focused practice that our family medicine grads are switching into I am sure there are answers. Whatever real or perceived benefits that are found in sub-specialization need to also exist in a career in comprehensive family medicine.

‘Concerning:’ New research reveals trend that may be contributing to family doctor shortage New research has found that many family doctors are choosing to work in emergency departments or other areas of hospitals instead of practising comprehensive family medicine, potentially exacerbating ...

40% of new family doctors aren't working as family doctors.

Very excited to finally see mainstream media covering the trend of family doctor sub-specialization and the obvious impact this has on the family doctor shortage in Canada.

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

We now have Ontario Drug Benefit coverage as well for injectable PrEP.

Even though PrEP is covered by ODB, we still have many patients (lower income workers aged 25-64) who aren’t eligible for ODB or can’t afford Trillium payments and need a universal PrEP program!

ViiV Healthcare Announces Reimbursement for APRETUDE for HIV-1 Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) under the Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) Program /CNW/ - ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK), with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi as shareholders, is...

Great news to see public NIHB coverage for injectable PrEP in Canada!

Important that novel methods of PrEP delivery are included under public drug plans while we continue to wait for national pharmacare.

www.newswire.ca/news-release...

During the last Trump administration a program was created to provide uninsured Americans with free PrEP.

2025 Trump has taken down the CDC PrEP guidelines.

So happy to see discussion on the effect of residency training environment on family medicine resident’s decision to practice comprehensive family medicine vs sub-specializing.

Thank you @beynate.bsky.social @janephilpott.bsky.social

Health for All with Dr. Jane Philpott Uncommons with Nate Erskine-Smith · Episode

The best podcast I have ever listened to on the primary care shortage in Canada.

open.spotify.com/episode/3ac3...

Things that continue to be on the Ontario wish-list this #WorldAIDSDay:

- Universal access to PrEP/PEP
- Universal access to ART
- A high-risk HPV vaccine program that doesn’t end after age 26

#onpoli

In Saskatchewan, struggles to stem highest HIV rate in Canada increasingly urgent as cases rise across country Care providers and medical experts in the province have long raised the alarm about growing rates of HIV, but they have been unable to curtail the disease’s spread

In Saskatchewan, struggles to stem highest HIV rate in Canada increasingly urgent as cases rise across country: Care providers and medical experts in the province have long raised the alarm about growing rates of HIV, but they have been unable to curtail the disease’s spread