The University of Ottawa welcomes funding to open 12 new spaces for first year medical students
Ottawa, May 21, 2009 — The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa will add 12 more first year medical students beginning September 2010 thanks to funding from the government of Ontario. The University will also receive $ 200,000 to support the capital requirements associated with implementing those additional spaces.
“The twelve new positions for undergraduate medical education is good news for the University of Ottawa and for the Ottawa-Carleton region, said Allan Rock, President of the University of Ottawa. This will mean more urgently needed doctors to provide the top-level care that patients have to come to expect from our graduates.”
The province will train more doctors by creating 100 new first year spaces at five medical schools over the next three years and is investing $35 million over three years to help medical schools build the specialized rooms, labs, and equipment they need to train our future physicians.