MONTREAL - The total number of registered doctors in Quebec jumped more in 2010 than in any of the 15 previous years, according to a new report from Quebec's College des Medecins.
Doctors' ranks leapt 430 to now total 20,464 as of the start of this year.
The report issued Tuesday states that Quebec has an additional 3,590 medical students and 3,335 residents in the four medical faculties in the province.
Sixty percent of Quebec's doctors are men and 40 percent are women. However those proportions are reversed among medical students.
Over 88 percent of Quebec's doctors received their certification in Canada, while half a percent were certified in the US and 11 percent in one of 75 other countries.
Quebec's doctors are roughly evenly divided equally between family doctors and specialists. Of the total number of members, 55 percent are aged 50 and over while another 1,960 are retired.
The spike in doctors has not solved Montreal's emergency overcrowding woes however. On Tuesday Health and Social Services of Montreal reported local emergency rooms are at 148 percent capacity.
