Health committee  In terms of answers, sorry if I'm going to shy away from it, but I think the problems or the issues are complex. For instance, right now there are efforts under way in various jurisdictions to look at resident duty hours, the amount of time that is allowable to have a resident do

Health committee  I think it's done jurisdictionally. In Quebec, for instance, there is a venue in which the provincial government sits down at the same table with the faculties of medicine and with hospitals, and they look at expected vacancies. They actually look at the number of surgeons expe

Health committee  I would observe that over the holidays I had an inappropriate charge to my credit card and my bank account dipped into, so I would suggest part of the issue here in health care is the firewalls in place to protect patient information. I think that's a real and probably valid conc

Health committee  Very quickly, in terms of keeping up skills, I would leave that aside, but I do think there is a cross-jurisdictional question. A lot of times, locums are about moving across jurisdictions. I think the national effort to develop an application for medical registration in Canada i

Health committee  The recommendation concerning diversity largely comes out of our Future of Medical Education undergraduate review. The data is very clear. We have only seen a greater polarization of medical students with respect to parental income; it is grossly misaligned with the averages for

Health committee  I'll take a crack at it. I don't have a definitive answer for you. Certainly I would say that on the international scene that's challenging, especially where it's a commercial “survival of the fittest” approach. But I think where there has been some success—and coming back to so

Health committee  I would suggest that you are in a transitional time right now. I've heard the exact same story. A lot of students contacted us when the program came into effect and they said, “I transitioned my loan to a bank” or “I talked with another organization and I got what looked like a g

Health committee  The only thing I would add here is that the federal government I think has been quite innovative in two main areas with respect to specific programs. The Canada student loan forgiveness program, which is giving a break to rural family doctors and rural nurses, is an innovative ap

Health committee  I think to come to your first question on the adoption of new technologies in our educational curricula, there are a number of ways we do that. I think probably the big hammer we have is accreditation. All 17 of our faculties of medicine undergo a very rigorous process of accredi

Health committee  I think it can be frustrating to see HHR conferences held across the country and disconnected from one another. We have agencies such as CIHI, Statistics Canada, and Health Canada's pan-Canadian HHR strategies division all doing excellent work, but if you ask where home is, where

Health committee  No, it's “Mr.”.