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Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping and Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides are expected to speak Thursday on how the government is addressing the shortage of doctors in rural areas of the province.

At this time last year, Copping announced details of the government’s new RESIDE (Rural Education Supplement and Integrated Doctor Experience) program, which aimed to address shortages in rural Alberta by offering financial incentives for doctors who start practising in remote areas in exchange for them spending at least three years working in a designated rural community.

In October, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta announced that Alberta Health had approved a number of recommendations that were made to improve the program, including offering physicians more flexibility, such as agreements that involve just a two-year term.

Last week, the CPSA announced it was launching a five-year pilot project aimed at streamlining the process for international medical graduates (IMGs) to work in Alberta. The pilot applies to those with training comparable to what physicians would receive at a university in Canada.

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