Growing enrolment has not changed where and how Canadians learn clinical care. Hospital-focused training limits exposure to community settings, strains supervisory capacity, and leaves learners unprepared for care outside acute settings.
Canada has increased the number of health trainees, yet most clinical education remains hospital-based rather than in community settings where many health needs arise.
Hospital environments offer essential acute-care experience but give limited insight into everyday, community-shaped determinants of health and barriers to access.
Physical space, staffing shortages, and supervisory limits in hospitals are constraining capacity to teach a growing learner cohort.
Get Daily Email Join/Login CLOSE Home / Featured Content / Canada's Health-Care Workforce Is Growing. Teaching Capacity Is Not By Niki Soilis Lying in a cold operating room surrounded by the health-care team, I watched trainees gather around to observe my surgery. Their presence was anticipated, given the central role hospitals play in health‑professions education.
As a result, learners are being trained in environments that no longer reflect the places and conditions where the greatest barriers to access exist. Others avoid seeking care altogether because of overcrowding, long waits and environments that can feel intimidating or unwelcoming. Our unique focus on giving a platform to health-care insiders allows us to provide detailed coverage of the inner workings—and dysfunctions—of this important sphere of Canadian society.
the whole person in the environments where health is shaped. Hospitals treat the most acute, high‑stakes moments of illness and are essential training grounds for complex care, but they show far less about the everyday challenges, relationships and social conditions that shape health in the community. Historically, training learners in hospital environments made sense.
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