The founders of PAIRO accomplished a significant task in establishing the sound and credible organization to which you belong today. Through their efforts, the life and opportunities for PAIRO members have been improved.

Through the determined action of PAIRO the following achievements have been attained over the past years:

• Recognition of the dual status of internes and residents as employees of teaching hospitals and as postgraduate trainees within the universities. (1974)
• Establishment of the Medical Postgraduate Consultation Committee consisting of representatives of PAIRO, COFM, the teaching hospitals and public members to help resolve contractual, employment and educational issues. (1976)
• Substantial wage increases to improve housestaff salary towards a satisfactory level. (1979)
• Withdrawal of services in order to obtain the legal right to independent compulsory binding arbitration, so that future job action would not be necessary for housestaff to resolve contract disputes. (1980)
• A significant voice in the educational process of postgraduate training through PAIRO members sitting on the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine (COFM) Postgraduate Education Committee, and on the postgraduate education committees of each of the five Ontario medical schools. (1982)
• Elimination of the unfair practice of some housestaff funded by sources other than the Ministry of Health not receiving equal pay for equal work. (1986)
• Negotiation of a mechanism to review problems of excessive workload in a hospital, where there is a serious and substantial professional or educational concern about the assignment of work. (1988)
• Defeat of the 1993 NDP Governments lockout proposal, which would have prevented new doctors from practising in Ontario. (1993)
• Successful negotiation of unpaid days off (Rae days) and continued movement up the salary scale from year to year, to offset the governments Social Contract reductions and Expenditure Control Plan. (1993)
• Since 1993, working on all fronts to ensure that a rational long-term physician resource plan is developed to manage physician supply and distribution, while ensuring that an unfair burden is not placed on new physicians. (1993 to present)
• Stopped the Government from proclaiming the billing number restrictions contained in the Progressive Conservative Governments Omnibus Bill 26. The section of Bill 26 allowing for the use of billing number restrictions was the only section of the Bill not proclaimed. (1995)
• Defeat of the Interim Agreement between the MOH and OMA containing billing number restrictions for new doctors. (1995)
• Successfully renegotiating a new PGY salary classification system which equitably redistributed the funding which could have been lost with the elimination of the old interne-based salary skip classification system. (1995)
• Successful negotiation of a home after 24/28 hour call rule. (1996)
• Aggressively lobbying the provincial government, university bodies, and those involved in medical education in response to the Ontario medical school universities administrations attempts, since 1995, to charge residents tuition fees. (1995 to present)
• Successful negotiation of the resumption of the pre-Social Contract salary levels and meal allowance (effective 1997)
• Launching PAIROs Community Physician Resources Program (1996 to present) including:
  

  •Dialogue ‘96 and report Answering the Call, •Forum 97 and report Progress and Direction: Physician Recruitment and   Retention in Rural and Northern Ontario, •Dialogue ‘97 and report Towards Solutions, •Report entitled From Education to Sustainability: A Blueprint for Addressing   Physician Recruitment and Retention in Rural and Remote Ontario Report, •Forum 99 and report entitled A Summary of Proceedings) to facilitate working   with communities to solve the challenge of recruitment and retention of   physicians in medically underserviced areas

  •PAIRO joins NOW Alliance (Negotiating Ontarios Well-Being) and develops  Rural Health Action Plan. (2000 to present)
  
• Establishment of the PAIRO Registry, the first central needs registry directly linking graduating physicians with underserviced communities for permanent and locum positions. (1996 to present)
• Development of the PAIRO Resident Placement Program (1999 to present)
• Successful lobbying and campaign to prevent tuition fees for residents at all five Ontario universities. (1997 to present)
• Move to 1:4 in house and 1:3 home call maximums. (2000)
• Presentation to the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care. (2002)
• Ontario Government provides funding and requests that PAIRO run the Health Professionals Recruitment Tour, supported by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Underserviced Areas Tour. (2002)