10 Year Growth in MoH Funded Residency Positions

After a period of steady growth in the number of MOH funded residency positions, we saw a decline in positions corresponding to the Ministry imposed reduction to residency intake, implemented in 2016-17. Subsequent reductions were mitigated by the initiative to provide 16 additional opportunities to unmatched U of T medical students to train in U of T residency programs.

The distribution of growth has been uneven across departments with growth in departments such as DFCM, Medicine and Psychiatry and reductions in departments such as Surgery, Anesthesia and Lab Medicine.

Growth in MOH funded PGYs by Department

Department	2020 – 2021	2019 – 2020	2018 – 2019	2017 – 2018	2016 – 2017	2015 – 2016	2014 – 2015	2013 – 2014	2012 – 2013	2011 – 2012	Total
Surgery	214,68	209,19	212	217,79	223,73	226,36	236,93	235,62	225,99	238,69	2240,98
Radiation Oncology	19	16	16	18,93	20	22,93	24,91	24,19	23,13	22,74	207,83
Public Health & Preventive Med	11,08	9,79	11,38	11,49	18,54	17,99	17,79	16,67	20,24	25,21	160,18
Psychiatry	197,94	185,41	186,93	181,16	178,23	177,17	172,45	167,65	164,27	160,58	1771,79
Palliative Mediciine	0	0	0	0,07	3,94	3,14	4,04	3,77	3,16	2,84	20,96
Paeds Critical Care	4	4	4	4	4	1	1	2,49	3,83	1,89	30,21
Paediatrics	126,1	123,99	121,99	118,2	120,16	120,85	126,91	124,41	112,62	122,14	1217,37
Otolaryngology	24	25,5	22,77	26	26,25	26,99	25	24,29	24	26,45	251,25
Ophthalmology	24,08	24,5	24,64	24,72	24,33	23,3	26	26,76	24,04	24,64	247,01
Obstetrics & Gynaecology	72,52	72,89	68,9	72,72	73,95	76,3	70,73	69,6	64,93	58,92	701,46
Medicine	466,27	477,68	463,72	475,59	478,61	485,72	467,78	442,38	443,16	435,39	4636,3
Medical Genetics	11	10,5	9,02	8,94	8,86	9,09	9,84	11,15	9,01	8,22	95,63
Laboratory Medicine	36,32	35,82	37,27	41,5	38,08	40,4	36,95	43	51,04	48,14	408,52
Family Medicine	372,16	385,09	376,41	367,54	366,68	365,64	355,28	372,92	343,61	318,01	3623,34
Diagnostic Radiology	57,94	61,34	63,46	64,77	71,51	67,37	61,44	62,33	65,86	69,57	645,59
Critical Care	14,92	14,46	12,5	12,14	14,36	13,78	12,59	13	16,56	14,55	138,86
Anesthesia	89,23	91,19	84,84	93,01	103,44	99,16	100,23	96,94	93,48	92,93	944,45
Total	1741,24	1747,35	1715,83	1738,57	1774,67	1777,19	1749,87	1737,17	1688,93	1670,91	17341,73