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Last month, Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 told reporters that Bill 106 is sticking around. (Sylvain Roy Roussel\/CBC)<\/p>\nAs of Thursday, Quebec family doctors are no longer teaching their medical students, as negotiations with the provincial government are at an impasse. <\/p>\n
Family doctors and medical specialists have been negotiating with Quebec, with Bill 106 at the heart of tensions. The bill, among other things, would link the pay of physicians to performance indicators in an effort to get them\u00a0to take on more patients.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Last month, members of the\u00a0F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des m\u00e9decins sp\u00e9cialistes du Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0(FMSQ), which represents medical specialists in the province, stopped teaching undergraduate\u00a0students and supervising their clinical placements in protest of the bill. <\/p>\n
And on Thursday, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u00a0des m\u00e9decins omnipraticiens du Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0(FMOQ), the group representing\u00a0family doctors, followed suit.<\/p>\n
“The FMOQ had agreed in good faith to postpone the teaching boycott,” the federation wrote in a statement to Radio-Canada on Wednesday. “In light of the government’s intransigence, the boycott will go ahead as planned.” <\/p>\n
The FMOQ is now requesting arbitration to settle this dispute. The group says it is committed to respecting the results of this arbitration, whatever the implications may be.<\/p>\n
‘We are still willing to negotiate,’ says government<\/p>\n
In a joint statement to Radio-Canada, Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 and Treasury Board President France-\u00c9laine Duranceau expressed their disappointment with the FMOQ’s decision. <\/p>\n
“We had put commitments for family medicine groups on the table. We are still willing to negotiate. Our goal remains that all Quebecers be cared for by a family doctor or a clinic,” wrote Dub\u00e9 and Duranceau.<\/p>\n
In an interview on Radio-Canada’s Tout un matin Thursday morning, Dr. Marc-Andr\u00e9 Amyot, president of the FMOQ, accused the government of negotiating in “bad faith,” saying it refused to budge, despite “enormous efforts” made by doctors at the bargaining table. <\/p>\n
“The minister says we are the highest paid in Canada. Well, if that’s true, let him prove it to the arbitrator and we’ll accept a pay cut,” said Amyot.<\/p>\n
He said his group has put forth solutions at the bargaining table, offering more appointment slots for patients and said it would like to work with the government to reach an agreement on a new remuneration scheme.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, negotiations with medical specialists also remain at a standstill.<\/p>\n
In a letter to its members obtained by Radio-Canada, the president of the FMSQ, Dr. Vincent Oliva, said the federation has called in a mediator.<\/p>\n
“As for the negotiations, they will only resume if the government confirms that its negotiators at the table have a mandate to move forward without interference from the chief gravedigger of the negotiations, minister Dub\u00e9,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
“We have made it clear to our counterparts that we will no longer play in this bad movie that always ends the same way.”<\/p>\n
Last month, Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 told reporters that Bill 106 is sticking around. (Sylvain Roy Roussel\/CBC)<\/p>\n
Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 said last month that\u00a0Bill 106 is here to stay, even if an agreement is reached with family doctors and medical specialists. <\/p>\n
Now, many medical students across the province worry they may not graduate in June because of this dispute. <\/p>\n
Bill 106 proposes a mixed remuneration model, which includes\u00a0capitation payments \u2014 an annual flat rate per patient based on their vulnerability level \u2014 , an hourly rate for time spent with patients\u00a0and a fee-for-service.<\/p>\n
Part of their pay would also be linked to their collective performance based on targets set at the provincial and\u00a0local levels.<\/p>\n
These targets could reduce wait times and absenteeism rates, and increase quality of care, said Dub\u00e9 in May.<\/p>\n
Amyot has warned that the bill will have a negative impact on access to doctors and stated that the evaluation of family doctors’ work shouldn’t be based solely on their clinical appointments, as there’s a “whole lesser-known section of their work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of Thursday, Quebec family doctors are no longer teaching their medical students, as negotiations with the provincial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-78755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}