P.E.I. offers more financial bonuses for new doctors

The Prince Edward Island government is now offering new doctors bigger bonuses and a shorter service commitment when they sign up to work in the province, in an effort to recruit more than two dozen doctors. 

Incentives are being offered for family physicians and some specialists who take jobs anywhere in P.E.I., whereas in the past bonuses were reserved for smaller, more remote communities. 

For the first time new family physicians in Charlottetown, Stratford and Cornwall are being offered bonuses of $50,000. 

“We have just been recently authorized to increase the amounts that we’re offering family medicine physicians,” said Rebecca Gill, the director of recruitment and retention for P.E.I.’s