HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Health Care In Canada, Allopathic Medicine
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Early medical practices in canada: regular doctors (allopathic medicine) the regular doctors. Trained by apprenticeship; they had no academic/scientific training. Allopathic tradition was rooted in the notion of humours as source of illness. Originally private, affiliation with universities was gradual. In 1912 the canadian medical act was introduced. Irregular doctors (midwives, homeopaths, butcher-surgeons, bone-settings, apothecaries, eccentrics, etc. ) Homeopaths as allopathic doctors biggest competition originally more organized than. In 1823 was the first medical school that opened in montreal later mcgill. In 1842 the second medical school opens in toronto later uoft: 1910, flexner report on the state of the us and canadian medical education lead to major reforms, foundation for today(cid:495)s medical education system. Anchored medical training to universities formal scientific training. Freedom of allopathic doctors from control by other occupations or groups . Helped to establish allopathic medicine(cid:495)s dominance: mds opposed the idea threat to their dominance and power preferred a free-market.
