A report commissioned to assess how ready P.E.I.’s health-care system is to support a new medical school at the University of Prince Edward Island also lays out how the province is struggling to meet the current needs of Island residents.
According to the Spindle report, the province’s health-care system is “backed up and overburdened” and care is “more reactive than preventative.”
The consulting firm Spindle Strategy is conducting a three-phase review to assess what capacity P.E.I. has to integrate medical students — whose training would occur in the field as well as the classroom — under the direction of doctors working within the province’s health-care system.
UPEI is building a new faculty of medicine, and plans to start offering a new joint degree with Memorial University in 2025.
The first phase of the Spindle report was delivered to UPEI and Health P.E.I. officials in October. It has not been released but CBC News received a copy through a freedom of information request.
