December 2008

Doctors Manitoba is the voluntary, professional association that represents the economic, health policy and health promotion interests of the province’s medical doctors ("physicians").  We were founded in 1908 as the Manitoba Medical Association and retained that name until the end of our centennial year.

Though it is an autonomous organization, Doctors Manitoba is a Division of the Canadian Medical Association, which serves the interests of physicians at the national level. Physicians who join both Doctors Manitoba and the CMA are known as "conjoint" members.

There are 2,272 licensed physicians in Manitoba, the vast majority of whom are conjoint members, as are almost all of the medical students in the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine. Overall, about 94% of eligible physicians and students are members of Doctors Manitoba/CMA. Moreover, all 429 residents (graduates in medicine who are undergoing on-the-job training to become family physicians or specialists) are conjoint members.

Doctors Manitoba is a professional association of physicians helping physicians. A separate organization, known as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba ("College"), is responsible for the licensing, standards and discipline of physicians. The College’s primary purpose is to safeguard the public interest.