by The province says the medical school campus at Cape Breton University is on track to open in the fall of 2025 with 30 seats for first-year medical students.
It says the provincial government will fund operations at the CBU site, that’s a partnership with Dalhousie University’s faculty of medicine, for two years.
The government says the Department of Advanced Education will determine a longer-term funding model for the medical school once it’s been operating for a year.
It says it will also fund five additional medical school seats at Dalhousie starting this fall.
The medical school at CBU will train family doctors with a special focus on rural health issues including aging, frailty and disease prevention, as well as Indigenous health and African Nova Scotian health.