Finance committee  How we move forward is a rather challenging and broad question, and I'm sure there's lots of wisdom around the room. Health research is what I'm talking to you about today. To be honest with you, I want to emphasize that it's a key component of moving forward in that manner. In

Finance committee  My research, perhaps not, but I can give you a suggestion that if you look at a number of the curves--and I alluded to them--if you look at the retirement curve for physicians, if you look at the numbers of nurses who go to another discipline, who we currently need, we're talking

Finance committee  We are in the midst of a rapid expansion in medical schools. As you may know, we were at a low point after some cuts in the early 1990s of about 1,500-plus medical school positions; we now have 2,300. We do have some plans to increase the campuses in all of the provinces and take

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. In our presentation, we've referred to direct costs but, in our previous presentation, we talked about indirect costs. There are four very important components to research, one of them being indirect costs. You know what they are. Like the Associati

Finance committee  As Mr. Maes told you, the percentage moved from 25% to 26% last fall.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Nick Busing, president and CEO of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. My association, AFMC, represents the 17 faculties of medicine in Canada. We have a tripartite mission: undertaking health research to improve th