York University\u2019s School of Medicine. <\/a><\/p>\nThe school is scheduled to welcome students in August 2028 on a site neighbouring Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital.<\/p>\n
In December, the Ontario Medical Association estimated 2.5 million Ontarians do not have access to primary care\u2014a number that could grow with many physicians retiring or considering leaving medicine.<\/p>\n
The Ford government has committed $3.4 billion to connect every Ontarian to a family doctor or primary care team by 2029. <\/p>\n
\u201cYork University is going to be a big portion of ensuring that we have enough family physicians,\u201d Nolan Quinn, Ontario Minister of Colleges, Universities, and Research Excellence and Security, told CTV News Toronto in an interview.<\/p>\n
The new provincial dollars will help the nascent school pay for its accreditation, curriculum development, faculty recruitment and training, establishing a medical library, and some initial operating costs.<\/p>\n
York University is raising $350 million to build the medical school. <\/p>\n
York Region has also committed $25 million to the project, the city of Vaughan has donated the land, and the province has offered a $9 million planning grant.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce completed, the new school will add hundreds of new family medicine seats, ensuring that Ontario has a strong and reliable pipeline of family doctors for decades to come,\u201d Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said alongside Quinn at a Thursday news conference to announce the funding.<\/p>\n
The primary care-focused school will have 80 undergraduate and 102 postgraduate seats to start, with a plan to grow to 240 undergrad and 293 post-grad spots.<\/p>\n
Toronto Metropolitan University opened its School of Medicine in Brampton in Sept. 2025<\/a> with 94 undergraduate and 117 postgraduate positions when it reaches full capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario government is committing $55.8 million to York University School of Medicine to train a new generation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-836459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836459","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=836459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}