$250,000.

That’s how much a Yukon-bound doctor could get for signing a contract to work in the Whitehorse emergency department for the next five years, thanks to a new agreement between the Yukon Medical Association and the Yukon Department of Health and Social Services.

Doctors in the territory voted in favour of the memorandum of agreement between the advocacy group and government department on Aug. 25, per Yukon Medical Association head Dr. Derek Bryant.

There are reams of incentives within the 58-page agreement .

Some are carryovers from previous understandings, per Johanna Smith, the director of physician compensation and medical affairs with the Yukon health department. These include the quarterly allowance for overhead costs of running a family practice, or the government’s fu

See Full Page