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This is the ninth in a series of articles based on the report Toward Integrated Medical Resource Policies for Canada,* prepared for the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Conference of Deputy Ministers of Health. In it we summarize the key concerns-and policy avenues relating to the
postgraduate training of physicians. Although we touch briefly on family practice programs and the proposed 2-year prelicensure requirement we focus
primarily on the training that leads to specialty certification by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), because this aspect
was identified by our interviewees and in the literature as being most in need of policy reform. (The discussion and policy movement that have occurred
in this area since our interviews are encouraging but as yet leave the main problems unsolved.)