Finance committee  I absolutely agree with you. We would love to support all efforts to ensure that more Canadians and particularly Canadian children are vaccinated.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for making it possible for me to speak to you today. I'm Geneviève Moineau. I am a practising pediatrician here at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. I'm also a full professor at the University of Ottawa. I'm here as presid

Health committee  We were just discussing it. I'll take that. That is exactly the mandate of the physician resource task force that has been commissioned by the committee on health workforce. This was based on the first recommendation of the future of medical education project: determine the right

Health committee  With regard to the different models of payment, absolutely, but this is something that should be studied. I would suggest that our current payment model is not ideal and we need to look at how to improve upon the payment model. From the point of view of the education around medi

Health committee  I would reiterate the fact that in order to be successful in this endeavour, there needs to be oversight that facilitates all of the players coming into a room, sitting around a table, and you lock the door and you don't let them come out until they have figured it out. That's t

Health committee  There is no financial incentive there.

Health committee  In fact, in organizations where physicians are reimbursed as an alternate funding plan, so it's not a direct fee for service—all of our hospitals in Ottawa function that way, where the physicians working within the hospital settings are on an alternate funding plan—in those envir

Health committee  The other beauty of what you just described in your personal experience is this. Imagine if I as a patient owned my medical information, and that if I happen to be travelling, I have—maybe not the microchip under the skin—but maybe I have a credit card with all of my medical info

Health committee  Again, we have probably the best medical education in the world in Canada, based on the strengths of many of the organizations represented here today. Part of that strength comes from the fact that we practise medicine as evidence-based. So the care that is provided to our patien

Health committee  Different models have been established. Other provinces do have them, but they were set up differently. You said that older doctors weren't accustomed to working under that model. And that's precisely one of the dimensions we feel is important. Doctors need ongoing education. It

Health committee  Thank you for the great question. We believe, and this is part of the work we're doing through the physician resource task force, that medical students should understand from the very beginning that they have a social accountability and that they will be asked to work where the

Health committee  I agree with what Ms. Fréchette just said. In principle, a new profession could fix some of the problems plaguing health care. It will help us deal with the perceived lack of certain types of physicians. But the profession has to be regulated. In a perfect world, the regulatory

Health committee  Just for clarity, I represent the faculties of medicine of Canada, so those that do the education at the level of the MD. In fact, absolutely; this is where, when I discussed our future of medical education in Canada project, it was very clear that one of the very important rec

Health committee  That's agreed, and I think in our recommendations there's a full recognition of the fact that physicians aren't the answer. They need to be part of the answer of providing health care. I think what would help is in fact ensuring that all health care providers are regulated. Some

Health committee  Where we see the benefit of involving the federal government is that it helps to facilitate the provinces getting together. That's exactly the example of our physician resource planning task force. It's understanding that looking at a physician resource is only one piece of the b