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Ontario to train 40 more medical students
Ontario has joined the parade of provinces increasing medical school enrolment. On Aug. 23 it announced a 7.5% boost in enrolment, bringing the provincial total to 572 first-year places. Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia made similar announcements earlier in the year. Ontario's 40 new slots will be spread among all 5 of its medical schools. The University of Toronto will get the most, 13, while McMaster will get 8 and the University of Western Ontario and University of Ottawa will each get 7. Queen's will get 5 additional places. The new spaces will cost the province $976 000 a year and will help replace some of the roughly 75 spots cut in Ontario in the early 1990s; all of those cuts were made at the University of Toronto. Dr. Jeff Turnbull, vice-dean of education at the University of Ottawa, says the final go-ahead for the increases wasn't received until Aug. 23, but the medical school had let people on its waiting list know that an increase was probable. "We certainly hope that more increases are in the offing and we've been given preliminary indications that this is the case," he said. He added that the increase, while good news for the 7 additional students accepted at the U of O, remains "a small drop in the bucket." — Patrick Sullivan, CMAJ
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