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SMA presents 2024 leadership awards to physician, resident, and student

The Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) honoured outstanding leadership in the province’s medical community by presenting three awards during its 2024 Fall Representative Assembly. The SMA annually presents Physician, Resident and Student Leader of the Year awards at the Fall RA, which was held Oct. 25-25 in Regina.

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SMA op-ed: Targeted solutions needed to tackle health care needs

A family physician shortage has been simmering across Canada for years, and Saskatchewan has been particularly hard hit. About 200,000 people in the province – or one in six – don’t have a family physician. This shortage is only going to get worse as more family physicians retire and fewer medical graduates enter family medicine.

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