Canadian Federation of
Medical Students
CFMS in the News
About the CFMS
The CFMS is an organization representing over 8,000 medical students from 14 Canadian medical student societies from coast to coast. We represent medical students to the public, to the federal government, and to national and international medical organizations.
2018
May 26
  • Medical school graduates face growing problems obtaining required residency positions
    The Globe and Mail
    • May 22
  • Elective choices may not matter for residency as much as medical students think
    CMAJ News
    • May 16
  • How millennials are disrupting medicine
    CMAJ News
    • May 14
  • Canadian medical school grads unable to get a residency may get a spot under new program funded by military
    CBC News
    • May 3
  • Major gaps in supports for medical trainees with disabilities
    CMAJ News
    • Apr 27
  • Military offers option to medical students without residency
    CTV News
    • Apr 25
  • Making the best of Canada’s worsening residency mismatch
    CMAJ News
    • Apr 20
  • New funding will help unmatched med school grads
    CBC Radio - Metro Morning Toronto
    • Apr 19
  • New Brunswick need doctors, medical students need residency matches
    CBC Radio: Information Morning St John
    • Apr 18
  • Ontario to fund more residency spots for graduating doctors
    CBC Radio - Ottawa Morning
    • Apr 18
  • Lack of residency spots for some graduating MDs costs taxpayers, Calgary medical student advocate says
    CBC News Calgary
    • Apr 17
  • Official data confirms more Canadian medical grads are without residency positions than ever before
    The Star Vancouver
    • Apr 17
  • More Canadian medical-school graduates than ever failed to secure residency
    The Globe and Mail
    • Apr 13
  • Medical Graduate Residencies
    Global News Radio Calgary - 770 CHQR (from 04:52)
    • Apr 13
  • Army to recruit Canada’s growing number of jobless medical graduates
    The Star Vancouver
    • Apr 12
  • ‘There must be a better way’: More medical grads expected to be jobless after graduation than ever before
    The Star Vancouver
    • Apr 4
  • Canada’s medical residency system is leaving some graduates in limbo
    University Affairs
    • Mar 22
  • Medical students who don’t match through CaRMS: “It’s like a scarlet letter”
    HealthyDebate
    • Mar 7
  • Medical trainees want benefit of doubt when reporting harassment
    CMAJ News
    • Feb 12
  • Indigenous Mental Health
    CBC Radio - All in a Day Ottawa
    • Jan 31
  • Incentivizing young doctors to practise in underserved areas
    CMAJ News
    • Jan 29
  • Unmatched Canadian medical graduates
    CMAJ
    • Jan 25
  • More supports for unmatched medical students coming soon
    CMAJ News
    • Jan 18
  • Doctors-in-training are growing extremely nervous about the lack of opportunities
    Macleans
    • 2017
    Dec 12
  • Are medical associations relevant to young doctors?
    CMAJ News
    • Nov 28
  • Medical schools addressing student anxiety, burnout and depression
    CMAJ News
    • Oct 24
  • Want healthier kids? UBC docs prescribe nature's Rx
    Vancouver Metro News
    • 2015
    Mar 12
  • CFMS at Standing Committee on Health
    HESA
    • Jan 29
  • Senate Question Period: Universal Pharmacare
    Senate QP
    • 2014
    Dec 11
  • It's time for a universal pharmacare system
    Toronto Star
    • Nov 24
  • Pharmacare TV Interview for CFMS Lobby Day
    CPAC
    • Aug 26
  • How other communities solve health care problems
    Alaska Highway News
    • Mar 3
  • Loan deferral during residency: a win-win solution
    Healthy Debate
    • Feb 2
  • Med students head to Ottawa, lobby for relief of student loans and affordable housing
    Canadian University Press
    • 2013
    Aug 09
  • The changing face of McGill medical students
    The Montreal Gazette
    • Aug 09
  • Pharma influence widespread at medical schools: study
    CMAJ
    • Jul 11
  • How much interaction should medical students have with industry?
    Healthy Debate
    • Jun 26
  • Women in Canada embrace opportunities for higher education: Statcan survey
    The Canadian Press / The Province / The Calgary Herald / The Montreal Gazette / The Ottawa Citizen / The Windsor Star / The Winnipeg Free Press / The Vancouver Sun / MacLean's
    • Jun 14
  • Refugee Care: We are standing up to say that this is wrong
    The Huffington Post Blog
    • Mar 19
  • Medical student debt and new BC rural incentive program
    CFAX Radio Victoria
    • Feb 13
  • Patients without doctors, doctors without jobs
    CBC The Current
    • Feb 4
  • Med students call for federal action on health human resources management
    The Hill Times
    • Feb 4
  • Les futures medecins visitent la colline du Parlement
    Radio-Canada
    • Feb 2
  • Medical students to lobby on debt, healthcare demand projections
    The Lobby Monitor