Thank you.
There are still some issues that we're addressing with respect to some of the health professions where we're still short. However, for the first time in history we're actually going to be slightly over strength for physicians, which historically has been our biggest recruiting challenge, to the point that in some years we have had less than 50% of the number of physicians we needed to have. As the quarterbacks of the medical team dealing with casualties, that's a tremendous success and a tremendous operational requirement to be able to provide that care, both in garrison and in deployed operations.
The patriotism that the conflict in Afghanistan has generated led to the recruitment of some of Canada's top clinical specialists. For example, one of the top transplant surgeons in Canada is now one of our medical officers. The director of Canada's number one trauma centre, Sunnybrook, the biggest premier trauma centre in Canada, is one of our surgeons.
So it has generated tremendous recruiting interest with very dedicated medical officers who are soldiers in mentality as well as being health care professionals, in fact to the point that with the reduction in operations in Afghanistan as the threat is reduced, it may have an adverse impact on our retention and recruiting. So we're doing very well.