Human Resources committee  I think that when we talk about involving specific groups, we need to talk about the culture of these groups. I think they're probably the best ones to answer your questions.

Human Resources committee  Each of the provincial governments wants to reform its health care system to be able to meet the needs of an aging population. We are looking at what is going on in Denmark, the Netherlands and elsewhere. With respect to the idea of implementing a pan-Canadian system that everyo

Human Resources committee  I seem to think there is a university in northern Ontario where the goal is basically to train doctors who will go to the regions. The allocation of health human resources is a very complex thing. It varies greatly from province to province and depends on how the health care sys

Human Resources committee  They are also being closed from time to time in urban centres on the other side of the river. Clearly, there is an issue when it comes to allocating resources. If we take Quebec as an example, it's the province that has the most doctors per capita in Canada. Given the way the he

Human Resources committee  Yes, I think so.

Human Resources committee  When we look at physicians, there is a perceived shortage. But when you read a bit in the media, you will see there's a perceived surplus coming our way. You already have a surplus of cardiac surgeons and some other specialties, so I think you need to keep this in mind. In term

Human Resources committee  There is clearly the issue of the challenging nature of the work, the fact that it's hard work. But we also need to acknowledge that most of the nurses in the country are unionized. Many in the current cohort of retiring nurses have diploma degrees. They started working relativel

Human Resources committee  If you have a national unique identifier and associate it with a person when he or she starts going to graduate school, I guess to post-secondary school, it will also allow you to know more about what's happening in the university or the college. You could look at dropout rates,

Human Resources committee  In terms of the occupational projections, if you don't mind I'll quote Yogi Berra, who said “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”. The challenge here is exactly what you mentioned. The number of seats in the faculty of medicine is controlled. The num

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. On behalf of the Canadian Institute for Health Information, I would like to thank you for inviting us to participate in your study of labour shortages. I am accompanied by Carole Brulé, who is one of our managers of the HHR databases we col

Health committee  In terms of mobility, we have done a study using census population data, looking at 30 health professions, to see how these professions move within provinces between rural and urban areas. We're updating it now with the 2006 data now available, which provides a lot of information

Health committee  Thank you very much.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  If I can add to that, we know how many physicians are enrolled in these faculties. We know how many spots there are in the faculties of medicine in the country and we report the trend. This is part of this report, on page 30. We do update the statistics on a yearly basis. That wa

Health committee  Well, I don't think it would be a recommendation, but I think we maybe need to think about trying to identify where we would be ten or twenty years from now, even just projecting the number of human resources we have now. I think that's something that we don't do as a country, an