The Université du Québec’s plans to create a family medicine training program in Chicoutimi are being questioned by the Université de Sherbrooke, reports Radio-Canada. UQuebec President Alexandre Cloutier said that a family medicine training program—which would be offered at UQAC, UQAT, and UQTR—would meet existing demand rather than conflict with current programming. However, USherbrooke, which has been offering off-site medical training at UQAC for around 20 years, has questioned whether a new program is necessary to fill the need for family doctors. USherbrooke faculty of medicine dean Dominique Dorion said that the current system works well and that the demand for doctors is changing, with the need for specialists becoming more pressing than the need for family doctors.
