MEDIA
Nov 15, 2023
Yahoo! News
College of Family Physicians backs down on 3rd year of training amid outcry
The College of Family Physicians of Canada is halting its plan to increase the time it takes to train a family doctor from two years to three, bowing to pressure from medical students, family doctors and provincial health ministers.
Nov 2, 2023
CBC News
Family doctors vote overwhelmingly against 3rd year of training
Dr. Paul Dhillon speaks to his motions, one of which called on the College of Family Physicians of Canada to 'immediately cease the implementation of the third year in family practice program.' The motion passed overwhelmingly.
Nov 1, 2023
Globe & Mail
Family doctors vote against lengthening residency period at annual meeting of Canadian physicians
Paul Dhillon, the physician who proposed the motion, told The Globe and Mail that 2,500 doctors – just over 91 per cent of the 2,775 who cast electronic ballots – voted in favour of suspending the three-year residency plan.
Oct 31, 2023
Globe & Mail
Canadian doctors to offer input on proposal to extend family medicine training
ut as word of it spread, opposition began to grow, prompting Paul Dhillon, a British Columbia doctor, to put a motion calling for the plan to be paused on the agenda of the college’s annual meeting of members.
“The palpable anger and the fact that people are so upset about this speaks volumes,” said Dr. Dhillon, who practises in Sechelt
Oct 22, 2023
CBC News
There's growing opposition to making family doctor training longer
That argument doesn't fly with Dr. Paul Dhillon, who has a family medicine practice in Sechelt, BC "I think about my personal experience," he said. "At the end of the day, I've never had someone say, 'My doctor hasn't had enough education or haven't hasn't spent enough time in school before they can start treating me.'"
Jun 2, 2022
Coast Reporter
Milos's mission continues: Bringing medical supplies from B.C. to Ukraine
Joining Pospisil’s fundraising and coordination efforts is Dr. Paul Dhillon of Sechelt. The two men have mutual friends going back 20 years, but it wasn’t until they both moved to the Sunshine Coast that they met. Dhillon and his wife were looking for ways to donate and help Ukrainians and it was “fortuitous”, Dhillon said, when he began hearing of Leach and Pospisil’s separate efforts and was able to connect the two.
Jun 14, 2019
Coast Reporter
School, business, Rotary pitch in for Mexican children
“We were proud to participate with the Sunshine Coast Rotary Club in providing soccer jerseys for these underprivileged youth in Mexico,” Romer said. Local physician Dr. Paul Dhillon will be attending the tournament in early July as a member of the team and will be delivering the jerseys and shoes to the school in person.
Jan 6, 2019
Coast Reporter
West Sechelt student one of five winners in Doctors of BC program
Dr. Chinmay Dalal and Dr. Paul Dhillon attended the school at the start of the month to distribute activity books and encouraged the children to participate in physical activity and healthy eating during the month.
Apr 1, 2018
Rotary
Rotaract showed Paul Dhillon the world. Now, Rotary always goes with him
Many children dream of being a doctor or astronaut, playing sports, or saving the world. At age 36, Paul Dhillon has done nearly all of it. Now a captain in the Canadian Army Reserve and a rural family physician, Dhillon started his exhaustive list of accomplishments at a young age with a focus on helping others – including an early entry into the world of Rotary.
Aug 9, 2016
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Acting to the very limits of what you can do
Dhillon contacted physicians with rural practices, past or present, and asked them to submit recollections. Forty doctors from across Canada answered the call. The resulting book, The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, was published in time for this year’s gathering of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.
Mar 26, 2015
Saskatchewan Medical Association
Dr. Paul Dhillon named one of CBC Saskatchewan's Future 40 for 2015
Dr. Paul Dhillon, who is a physician with the Saskatchewan Medical Association's Rural Relief Program, has been named one of CBC Saskatchewan's Future 40, recognizing Saskatchewan's brightest young leaders under 40 years old.
Jan 27, 2015
University of Saskatchewan
Medicine grad enjoying work in rural Saskatchewan communities
Work, for Dr. Paul Dhillon, is going where he’s needed.
And whether that’s his full-time job of working on a week-to-week basis in small single-physician Saskatchewan towns, or his current work at an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone’s picturesque coastal resort town of Tokeh, he can be found working at the vanguard of family medicine.
Jun 20, 2012
Vancouver Sun
Brother-sister doctors heading to Boston as winners of essay contest
They were high school valedictorians at South Delta senior secondary and now siblings Jessy and Paul Dhillon are going to Harvard University on Friday to collect prizes from the highly prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).