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Nova Scotia to invest $59 million for new medical school at Cape Breton University

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Medical school ‘finally’ coming to Cape Breton by fall 2025: premier
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston addressed a packed room in Cape Breton Friday for the annual State of The Province Address. Much of Houston’s comments were focused on health-care. His address also included an announcement about how the province will help train and keep more doctors in Nova Scotia. Callum Smith reports. – Jan 27, 2023

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says his government will invest $58.9 million to develop a new medical school at Cape Breton University by fall 2025.

The medical school will be the second in the province and is expected to graduate 30 doctors a year, in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s faculty of medicine.

The premier said in a statement the best way to make sure rural Nova Scotians have access to health care is by training students who come from rural communities.

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He says the new school will focus on training Nova Scotians who are eager to practise medicine in rural parts of the province.

The government says $49 million will go toward a medical sciences building, $6.2 million to a new collaborative-care clinic at the Nova Scotia Community College Marconi campus, in Sydney, N.S., and $3.7 million to expand the university’s health and counselling centre.

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The premier made the announcement at the university’s student centre, just outside Sydney.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 7, 2023.

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