A class syllabus for Canada’s medical school leadership

Canada’s health-care system is stretched, fatigued, and showing major cracks. Many physicians are burning out. Every year, 30-to-40 Canadian physicians die by suicide—and one-in-seven have considered it. We have to change that.

Canada's federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel, pictured on the Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BRADEN MANNS

April 13, 2026

This week, 1,800 physicians, educators and students from Canada’s 21 medical schools will gather in Ottawa for the annual meeting of the Association of Faculties of Medicine. The association supports Canada’s medical schools to provide world-class medical education, rese...

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