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Women: 81% of new Montreal med students. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
The feminization of the medical profession started early in Montreal, where the latest figures show 81% of the newly enrolled students at the University of Montreal are women.
That bothers Raymond Lalande, vice dean of its med school, who wonders why it's happening.
Providing answers is Monique Boivin, an '80s pioneer in getting women into the once male-dominated medical profession, who said, "Today's female doctors are yesterday's nurses." Nationwide, women are 52% of Canada's med students, comparable to the U.S. She attributes the dramatic change to these factors:
* Men are abandoning medicine for more lucrative careers in business, law and engineering in which they can get more respect, money and autonomy.
* Government health care systems, especially in Quebec, offer low compensation to doctors, and even penalize those who choose to work in big cities.
* Women applicants to med schools have higher grades, because women have always been better students than men, at least ...
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