National Defence committee  I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

National Defence committee  I'm not sure if there's absolutely a retention problem. What I can speak to is that in terms of the size, if there is a retention problem, I believe it's actually improving. I would use as a metric for that the fact that perhaps ten years ago there were huge signing bonuses for

National Defence committee  I'm actually a little embarrassed—I know we did receive an award—perhaps I could speak to my backbencher here, in terms of the name of the award. I know that General Bernier went to receive this, and it was in recognition of the great care that was provided at the Role 3 by the C

National Defence committee  It was the Larrey award, named for a French surgeon from Napoleonic times.

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  I wrote a paper with the U.S. and the British on how you prepare a surgeon for war. We surveyed what our allies were doing with regard to preparation for surgeons. It's very difficult to send surgeons, for training purposes, to conflicts that we're not involved in. With regard

National Defence committee  Yes, I would believe so.

National Defence committee  The three years actually wasn't for surgery. That was just after my medical school, as a general duty medical officer. My obligatory service for general surgery was five years. I'm not aware of what the obligation is for different countries. We can find out for you and get back

National Defence committee  In fact as a disclaimer, it wasn't my research. I wish it were, but it wasn't. This was a product that was developed by the U.S. military called QuikClot. When tactical combat casualty care came about there was the development of tourniquets. If you had a traumatic injury to an e

National Defence committee  They weren't. The ultrasound was given to physicians and Dr. Wiss, who I know well, is an expert and a teacher of trauma ultrasound. The reason it's not given to medics at the moment is that it requires a fair amount of training and exposure to real patients with different pathol

National Defence committee  I'm hoping to promote military trauma research. In the terms of reference for the chair, it would be to stimulate research, to conduct the research myself, and to develop collaboration with other Canadian academic centres and with our allies in conducting research important to th

National Defence committee  Because of my background in general surgery and trauma, I know the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield remains bleeding. My personal research interests lie in how we best treat massive bleeding, how we resuscitate, and how we stop that.

National Defence committee  For example, if you look at civilian funding, CIHR funding in Canada, the big pillars tend to be things like cardiovascular health and cancer. Mostly because this is what kills Canadians. There's no separate pillar at CIHR in terms of trauma care or care to the injured. Because t

National Defence committee  There are two types of work that I do. I do database research and I do clinical trials. We're now actually doing a study in collaboration with the U.S. It's called the PROPPR trial. We're looking at how we can best transfuse patients who are massively bleeding. There are a lot of

National Defence committee  In terms of budget cuts, it's hard for me to answer because I don't have an overview. What I will say is that during the war years, so 2006 and so forth.... It's very expensive to care for acutely injured patients. We did a study on how much it costs to look after injured Canadia