Canada has a shortfall of 478 emergency physicians, a figure projected to rise to 1518 by
2025 unless the problem is addressed, according to a report from the Collaborative Working …

In recent weeks, hundreds of emergency physicians in Canada have signed open letters
describing their inability to provide safe and timely care in overcrowded and understaffed …

Looking at “the Canadian health care system” must require special lenses; from most
perspectives it cannot be identified. A national health care strategy was barely …

In 2009, representatives from many of the major stakeholder organizations in emergency
medicine convened in Dallas, TX, to discuss the future of emergency medicine, with a focus …

Background During recent years, US and Canadian emergency medicine (EM) workforce
studies have been published. 1–3 A 1994 manpower study3 suggested that by 2001 …

In the late 1970s, emergency departments of urban hos-pitals were staffed by physicians
without formal training in emergency medicine, which was not recognized as a distinct …

Historically, emergency department (ED) staffing was similar in the United States and
Canada; however, during the past decade, economic pressures resulting from reduced …

Emergency departments are failing. Triage lineups, packed waiting rooms, ambulance
offload delays, unacceptable treatment delays, waiting room disasters and frustrated …

Sustainability is a big buzzword in medicine at the moment, and rightly so. There is little
point investing a lot of time, effort and money in training medical students and junior doctors …

Editor's note: Two different educational tracks can lead to emergency medicine
specialization in Canada: the 5-year emergency specialist program of the Royal College of …