The Health Ministry offered the incentives to recent family medicine graduates through a new-to-practice family physician contract offered in June.
Fifty-four newly graduated family practice doctors have signed cash-incentive contracts to provide full-service primary care in B.C. — and discussions are underway with another 65,according to Health Minister Adrian Dix.
The new doctors will earn nearly $300,000 in the first year — $295,457 — plus a $25,000 signing bonus and debt forgiveness for medical training of up to $50,000 in the initial yearand up to $20,000 a year over the next four years. Doctors of B.C., which represents physicians in the province, and the provincial government are in the final stages of negotiations that will in part address reducing use of the fee-for-service model and offering doctors alternatives such as contracts and salaried positions.
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