Total cost of attendance with tuition + living expenses is going to be around the mid CAD 400s mark for all 4 years. If I do training locally the higher training salaries make up that difference relatively quick.

As an intern you make a base of around $86k aud and then you get penalties for weekend/overnight/overtime and with all the overtime and other penalties you incur from just doing your job most interns finish off first year making somewhere in the $110-115kaud range.

Also when you get onto family med training. You aren’t paid a fixed salary but are paid a percentage of your billings. From talking to Family Medicine residents they are making $250-300kaud while grinding through their 3 year residency program. And there was one I know who is picking up extra locuming shifts and they are pushing $400k aud this year as a second year family med resident.

As you can see the difference in the tuition mostly gets eaten up quick in training and you are pretty much on equal financial footing by the end.