Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Wow, thank you all for being here. This is tremendously educational. I feel like I am back in university again. I need an instantaneous note service for everything being covered here. I haven't written this many notes in I do not know how long.
Dr. Jolly, I wish you would have been my professor when I was doing female care 40-some odd years ago. I do appreciate your comments. There is so much knowledge here.
A couple of things have been brought up. We have people watching today who have written and sent a lot of letters to the committee, etc., dealing with the issue of endometriosis, and recognizing it and getting that early diagnosis. You've all talked about that.
Dr. Jolly, you had 10 points. The first one was about education and basically getting into the schools to educate youth on what could possibly happen. I think that is great. The other part you talked about is expanding that medical education. I am going to throw this out there, because one of the things I brought up in the study is the reality that when I went to school, probably only 20% of the students were female. Today at medical schools, it's 50%-plus. That is great to see. We are seeing closer to 48%, 49% female practitioners.
What our constituents who are watching want to know is how we get those doctors who have graduated to take an interest in this subject. I got into sports medicine and various aspects. I streamed into orthopaedics. That was my interest. Everyone tends to do that. But how do we get these doctors to say that this is something they need to know, so when that youth or menopausal lady comes in, they know that this is part of what they need to know.
I will start with you, Dr. Nguyen, and then I will go to Dr. Jolly.