Increasing New Brunswick s purchase of medical school seats by ten at Memorial University Beginning in the next school year, New Brunswick will return to the province s pre-1993 medical school enrolment level by purchasing ten seats at Memorial University. Within four years there will be an additional 40 New Brunswick students at Memorial University Medical School, which when added to those enrolled at Dalhousie, Sherbrooke, Laval and the University of Montreal, will bring the province s total number to 200. The province will increase its involvement in the post-graduate training of family physicians through a partnership with Nova Scotia and PEI at the Family Practice Teaching Unit, based at the Moncton Hospital. As a central location in the Maritime provinces, the teaching unit will result in an additional twelve family practice residents being exposed to New Brunswick s health care system and rural New Brunswick communities included in the network. This type of exposure is important because of the urban and rural dynamic, which is such an important part of Maritime identity.
Current demand exceeds the twelve placements now funded.
The number of summer employment positions for first and second year medical students will be increased to 30. Remuneration levels will also be increased above those defined by the provincial summer employment program, as an additional means of assisting students in meeting tuition and associated living costs while attending university. Expanding the Supernumerary Residency Training Program to assist medical students Prior to 1997, both medical students and foreign-trained physicians could apply for residency sponsorship under the Supernumerary Residency Training Program. Sponsorship carried with it a return for service agreement of one year for each year of support for the first two years, and one-half year for each subsequent year of support. A total of 59 physicians who received specialty training under the program between 1987 and 1997 returned to New Brunswick to practice.