Health committee  We have looked at those data. I can certainly provide them to the committee, but I don't have them on me.

Health committee  I can show you some data that explicates it, but there is a decreasing number. If you look at it, it's a graph that falls off, and there's certainly a percentage who pass the first time, and then two or three times, and--

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I think that was Dr. Varastehpour's point. There really aren't effective bridging programs for physicians who want to find alternate careers. The provincial governments, Ontario, for example, have established a physician assistance program. Manitoba has a physician assistance pro

Health committee  I guess that's directed to me, Madam Chair.

Health committee  Thank you. The evaluating examination is created by a panel of Canadian physicians who are practising in Canada at this moment, and the pass is established on what would be expected of a Canadian graduate just entering a residency or entering a program. So it is a minimal exam

Health committee  The attempt is to reduce the cultural bias, as much as a Canadian writing an examination question can. Obviously, they won't be on the country's perhaps predominant health questions, because there are now our predominant health questions. There has been some work in terms of web

Health committee  The president of the Medical Council of Canada is an IMG.

Health committee  Madam Chair, I am here as the CEO of the Medical Council of Canada. I also happen to be the vice-chair of the Health Council of Canada, so I get mixed up sometimes with the data that I am delivering. I can't answer that question from the Medical Council's perspective; I can only

Health committee  As I understand it , the oversight committee for this is ACHDHR, the advisory committee on health delivery and human resources, and it is a federal-provincial committee. It's the only one of the three committees that were established after the accord that is still surviving, and

Health committee  There are a number of attempts. The College of Family Physicians—and perhaps it should speak to this—is actually undertaking reciprocal agreements with other countries, where the acceptance of training in that other country would be accepted automatically in ours. The Royal Colle

Health committee  I think the federal government has taken some leadership in this role. When a blockage has been identified, there has been funding. An example is the assessment process, which was really run independently by seven regional or provincial jurisdictions, but is now being brought tog

Health committee  Madam Chair, the province of Ontario actually funds 200 international medical residency slots per year, and that's not including other positions that might be available. That is a number I do know.

Health committee  This is a paradox in Canada. We don't actually work on provincial statistics. When we're looking at the match, we look at Canadian statistics at the match level--

Health committee  We know that... I mean, Mr. Boone has--