{"id":32823,"date":"2025-07-29T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32823\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:14:14","slug":"admissions-now-open-for-u-of-ls-southern-alberta-medical-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32823\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions now open for U of L\u2019s Southern Alberta Medical Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/f3374719-4db6-4789-9251-94211ab45f9e.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Applications are now open for the Southern Alberta Medical Program at the University of Lethbridge. (Photo: Lethbridge News Now)<\/p>\n<p>By David Opinko<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 28, 2025 | 10:20 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It will mark the first time that soon-to-be doctors will receive their entire education at the University of Lethbridge (U of L).<\/p>\n<p>The new Southern Alberta Medical Program (SAMP), a three-year Doctor of Medicine Program, is accepting applications.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to help increase rural and regional healthcare, the program is delivered through a partnership between the U of L and the University of Calgary\u2019s (U of C) Cumming School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Students who complete the SAMP will earn a U of C medical degree while completing their training in Lethbridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applications are now open for the Southern Alberta Medical Program at the University of Lethbridge. (Photo: Lethbridge News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-32823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}