A number of us have sent grant applications in to get funding to look into this. One factor, says Tellier, is that, intentionally or not, the field doesn't always garner much respect from medical schools. Dr. Paul Rainsberry, director of education with the College of Family Physicians of Canada, concurs. He worries that many medical professors steer students toward supposedly more glamorous specialties. The biggest obstacle is the workplace.
Employers wrongly believe that having children is an individual responsibility.
Social work professor Germain Dulac in an article in La Presse on how fathers at work don't ask for time off when their responsibilities as parents ought to make it necessary. It includes a glossary of Martian and planetary terms that's accessible from any of the web site's 12 chapters, which include water, Martians, volcanoes and Little Green Men. It even has the odd game such as matching up the right planets to the right signs of the zodiac. But, while the content is engaging, it's never gimmicky. In fact, all the research is straight from the scientific journals, reassures Pierre Hudon, who, while a doctoral student in Earth and Planetary Studies, undertook the job of researching the Martian content, a task that took him five months.