Health committee  Obviously I'm not in a position to comment on that individual's circumstance.

Health committee  I'm sure they are great. It's funny how life diverts us sometimes. We have a lot of specialties in Canada, and at the Royal College we continuously talk to members about what additional competence they need and what subspecialties we build. Again, what's missing is the data capt

Health committee  We have limited access to data as a whole for the entire system. There is an opportunity, I think, through the Canadian Medical Association, to look at creating a national dataset that could go beyond only physicians and include our colleagues as well. The data on physicians tha

Health committee  I agree. We have the same reality. When medical students choose to be residents, they have the choice of The College of Family Physicians and a variety of specialties at the Royal College. Increasing access is absolutely part of the solution. Of course, nothing is easy in that, b

Health committee  Thank you. I'll be a bit of a broken record on the fact that we don't have data. Regarding your previous question of whether we have enough doctors, I don't know. Do we have the right kind of doctors? Could we actually use that dataset to inform our medical students to help t

Health committee  There is more data coming out. I will actually put forward that this generation of physicians is actually teaching us to be wiser about things. They're looking at the rate of burnout we're seeing and saying that they don't want to be in that position. They want help to not be t

Health committee  That's a great question. Thank you. We of course want to have the best physicians possible to look after the population of Canada. The processes that we require for both Canadians and physicians outside of Canada to join need to be equitable in a way that, when you see a physici

Health committee  Thank you. Yes. My husband is a family doctor and I can tell you that there are a lot more similarities than differences between specialists and family physicians when it comes to these issues. I really do think that the solution, as you've heard from many of my colleagues, is

Health committee  Having a system with the patient at the centre and where we can all talk to the same reality definitely does seem to be an advantage. The implementation of this, making sure that the physicians and other health care workers who deliver the care have access to that, and the impl

Health committee  The timing is perfect; I'm right there. The Royal College represents specialist physicians, but our fellows and residents work in teams. To that end, we offer the following recommendations. Collect and analyze data at a national level, ensuring that we have robust data for all

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Honourable committee members, I thank you for the opportunity to appear today before this committee to discuss the critically important topic of health workforce recruitment and retention. My name is Guylaine Lefebvre. I am the executive director of the O