Health committee  As I indicated, CaRMS is the only route in--aside from a program in Alberta, but the same people who apply to Alberta apply to CaRMS, so we have that count. We have, as I said, approximately 1,600 who declare themselves to have written the exams and to be ready to begin postgraduate training.

Health committee  I think we must recognize that we have a cohort of internationally trained physicians that is somewhat predictable, and we need some predictable funding to allow both assessment and training to follow. We are an immigration-based country. This should not be a surprise to any of us that the source of some of our physicians will be through immigration, and we must have set aside in every section a dependable source of funding for training.

Health committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present the work of the Canadian Resident Matching Service to the Standing Committee on Health. The Canadian Resident Matching Service is the access point to postgraduate medical education in Canada. All applicants, whether they're internationally trained or Canadian trained, must enter at the first level, which is PTY1, and CaRMS is the doorway into that process.