Health committee  I wish I could explain why these things don't happen.

Health committee  I know. I wish I could explain. With respect to your first comment, the only thing I would say is, I think that in all of these discussions what we need to be putting first and foremost are the needs of Canadians. Those are what we should be using as the organizing principle for

Health committee  I would concur with everything that was said.

Health committee  All I can say is, that's not a quick question. We could have an entire day-long conversation—

Health committee  It is a big issue and one that I could not possibly do justice to in a short comment.

Health committee  I'd be happy to.

Health committee  That's outside of my scope of practice. I don't know.

Health committee  My editorial comment there—and I'm not speaking based on evidence or on behalf of my organization at this particular moment—is that I think it takes more than money to change culture. What we're talking about is changing the culture of an entire profession, and that is not going

Health committee  I'll be brief and then I'll pass it on. Yes, it's a complete coincidence, actually, that CFMS was doing their lobby day with the same messages, because we were only invited to present here on Thursday. So they had planned their lobby day long before we were actually confirmed he

Health committee  That's right. My plea is that the writing has been on the wall for a very long time. There's a reason why our slide deck is called “From Analysis to Action.” We are in analysis paralysis. We keep talking about this issue. It needs to get done. The amount of money we're talking

Health committee  I just want to add that some of the new e-learning tools we're talking about not only present new ways of teaching, but new ways of evaluating. There are some very exciting opportunities, I think, facing medical educators in terms of rethinking the way we assess. There are some r

Health committee  I'll take a stab at clarifying and you can tell me whether I've done a decent job. From my perspective, effective planning needs to be based on data that is as complete as possible. I believe that at the moment there are large gaps in the data that we have at the national level.

Health committee  Absolutely. This proposal is this proposal. We believe that this proposal in the current environment is achievable, possible, and will contribute to the solution.

Health committee  I will certainly do that.

Health committee  Just very briefly, I wanted to mention—my colleague just reminded me—the Future of Medical Education in Canada project first looked at undergraduate medical education, and then it looked at postgraduate education. We're very much hoping to be positioned to do our third component,