Dr Hutten-Czapski is in solo practice in the four doctor town of Haileybury Ontario about 500 Km North of Toronto. He is a full fledged rural doctor and provides Obstetrics, ER and inpatient services in the next town as well as research and teaching in rural Family Medicine. The Ontario region welcomes Dr Karl Stobbe of Beamsville to the Ontario committee. Dr Stobbe joins Dr Mark Whitaker, Dr Ian Park and Dr Carl Eisner who were reelected. Please contact these regional reps with your feedback on the priority issues on rural Ontario.
Many programs are already compliant.
At present the definition of rural has been left vague to aid programs to become compliant. Other changes to the red book will include formalisation of advanced rural skills programs in anaesthesia and obstetrics. An illustration on how this will require structural change is at Western. While it has excellent rural streams but there has been little access to rural family medicine in the other 6 month family medicine blocks. Without additional funding, all that may be done is to have everyone rotate through the Mount Brydges site.