Thank you very much for the very important question.
It is among the top issues that we're working on, both with learners as well as faculty members. Our nursing colleagues in particular have identified burnout and stress as a particularly risky issue. In academic nursing, of course, we're dramatically short. At the University Health Network at the moment, we have an opportunity for 600 nursing hires. They just simply aren't available.
In addition, we're seeing more people within the health professions and the research professions advising their children not to undertake studies in these domains, and I think that's the most concerning aspect of all. Their concerns have been particularly exacerbated through COVID.
I would say that all of the universities and academic hospitals have programs in place to support the psychological well-being of learners and faculty members, but as we're learning, the system has been overwhelmed, so we have a great backlog—not only, as we hear in the media, in areas like surgery, but also in mental health and the importance of mental health. Frankly, an investment of research dollars into the mental health of the provider community and the research community would also be a very welcome initiative.
