Episode #4
Canada's Doctor Pipeline Is Broken — Here's Who's Fixing It
Peel Region is home to 1.8 million people — and one of the worst physician shortages in Ontario. The answer isn't importing doctors. It's training them here. In this episode of Breaking Silos in Canadian Healthcare, Dr. Valerie Mueller (TMU School of Medicine) and Dr. Alison Freeland (Trillium Health Partners) break down the community-embedded training model they're building together — and why 70–80% of doctors who train in a region go on to practice there. This isn't just a local story. It's a blueprint for how Canada rebuilds its medical workforce from the ground up. What we cover: → Why the traditional academic training model fails communities like Peel → How the TMU / Trillium partnership is structured — and what makes it different → Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME): what it actually means for practice-ready doctors → The retention data that should be driving national policy → Whether this model can scale — and what's standing in the way
