Health committee  I have three minutes to go. I think I'll do some of that by follow-up. I have taken note of that. Let me answer your first question first. For the last 10 years, when I arrived seven years ago at the AFMC, there was a project that had already been in the pipeline for a long time

Health committee  In terms of the pipeline project, our proposal is mirrored after some very successful United States experiments. In the United States, the experiments we were looking at were around getting more African American applicants into medical school. In our situation, we were adapting i

Health committee  I wish I could. What I was sharing with you was what our industry partners are telling us. I would not be equipped to identify either the problems or proposed solutions for those. My point was merely that we are at the table as faculties of medicine and we are encouraging our res

Health committee  Absolutely. We are not proposing any federal role in health human resource planning. This is clearly a provincial issue. But we are saying that the federal government could be enabling, a tool that all jurisdictions could contribute to and draw upon to inform their own provincial

Health committee  Yes. I don't, but faculties of medicine have people, particularly in the research environment, who in fact communicate that as broadly as possible, for sure. For instance, we have a standing committee on research and graduate studies with all the deans of research on it. The dea

Health committee  Steve can add to this. As you were speaking, something very specific came to mind. We completed a study called the Future of Medical Education in Canada. One of the elements of that report was focused on the hidden curriculum. I want to mention that it's not only incentives. It'

Health committee  Right. But for instance, watching the demographics of Canada, I think there is the realization that we probably are not graduating enough folks who are going into geriatrics or care of the elderly. This was a very slow-motion train wreck that most of us could have probably predic

Health committee  You raise a really interesting point. I must say that things have changed significantly, at least in the seven years that I've been working with the faculties of medicine. I think the culture among emerging researchers and medical students is less about the big, bad, private sec

Health committee  We are. I think it gets under-reported and is not discussed enough. We're a small country so the numbers are never going to be the same as they are in the United States, just because of the numbers of medical students and faculties. We have emerging researchers, young and mid-ca

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I can tell you that the timing is perfect. We have just completed a study in partnership with Canada Health Infoway, so to speak to the second question around what is happening in our faculties of medicine with respect to electronic health records, th

Health committee  Once again, thank you for the question. As I mentioned, each of the provincial jurisdictions is making an effort to do its own provincial-level analysis, although the variance in sophistication of the HHR modelling is quite broad. There are some provinces that are just not equip

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and members of the committee, for taking the time and for inviting us to come and speak with you. At the AFMC we spend a lot of time thinking about and enabling national projects that deal with medical education, and I would echo everything that