I did bring along some numbers on the residency issue because there has been quite remarkable progress in the past few years actually. Just to put it into context, before we talk about the specific issue of internationally educated doctors and their capacity to come in as residents, in terms of medical school enrollments generally—all undergraduate seats, not just foreign-trained—first-year undergraduate seats increased by 31% from 2002 until 2008. So that was a six-year period with a pretty dramatic increase in undergrad seats. If you assume there's a very low attrition rate—there has historically been a pretty low attrition rate out of undergraduate medicine, and most of those students do, of course, take on residencies, either in family medicine or specialties—down the road that will represent quite a significant new flow of professionals.
On November 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.