Health committee  The provinces that have increased that ratio, where there are more residency positions than there are graduates of Canadian medical schools, are doing better. I could provide you with that information by jurisdiction. There are some provinces that have taken that into considerati

Health committee  Thank you for the question. As you identify, this was the recommendation that came out in 2018. In fact, we did have a significant positive response to that, in that we had three provinces that actually changed their policy around how the match was structured, which enabled a si

Health committee  Again, we would seek your support in encouraging provinces to increase their numbers, both of medical school spots—positions for students—and, as well, of residency positions. You have to align those, and we suggest an alignment of 1:1.1. There are some provinces that have made s

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. In fact, it is not within the authority of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada to comment directly on this. What I can say, though, is that it's really important to think about how general practitioners are paid for their work

Health committee  I agree with you that it's important for medical schools to accept students who are ready to become general practitioners. We are looking at this issue a lot. Whether in Quebec or in the other provinces, it's a really important aspect. In fact, it's the faculties that decide who

Health committee  There would definitely be more than 50 over the last several years. That information is a little harder to obtain, but we can certainly give you a range if that would be helpful to you.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. We are in the process of confirming what those numbers are, as well as what the capacity of our 17 medical schools is at the present time. We would certainly be able to provide you with this information in very short order.

Health committee  It means within the very next few weeks.

Health committee  We are currently midway through the match for this year, but we know that there is a gap of at least 100 positions at the moment, and that's without any increases in the number of medical school positions. We could certainly, again, provide you with an accurate number based on t

Health committee  Upon their year of graduation.... That's correct.

Health committee  These are graduates of Canadian medical schools, so they are in Canada. The issue is that there's a wastage of time in their not graduating and moving on to residency in that year. Many of them eventually match, but just to have to delay that by a year is really very unfortunate

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Honourable members of the Standing Committee on Health, thank you for inviting me to speak today on behalf of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. I'll be speaking in English, but I'd be pleased to respond to any questions in both official l

Finance committee  We have been involved in much research on vaccines to treat the daily occurrence of the usual infections. When I started my training, we had maybe four to six vaccines that we were giving children regularly. Now there are a dirty dozen. We have been doing that work. That continue

Finance committee  Sorry, are you talking about providing vaccines?

Finance committee  That's a very important public health issue, and—