PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Murray, T. J.
TI  - Pondering the future
DP  - 1993 May 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1589--1593
VI  - 148
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/148/9/1589.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/148/9/1589.full
SO  - CMAJ1993 May 01; 148
AB  - Despite growing tensions as the Canadian health care system evolves, the system will survive over the next decade and strengthen its societal objectives, sometimes dragging physicians along. With the shift of the intellectual centre away from the universities, research and researchers will find funding security but career insecurity in the private sector. The independent investigator will become rare as "big science" becomes the norm, and basic science departments will have a decade of confusion as they struggle for a new place in the renewed medical schools. The move toward problem-based, community-oriented medical education will be completed, clinical faculty will become salaried and the smaller numbers of graduates will be more controlled in their practices. Medicine as a profession will adopt a renewed philosophical framework and will broaden in its scope to the benefit of Canadians.