Adequate support staff and program funding will allow the faculty of medicine to sustain improvements of recent years and to ensure a strong foundation for development of new and expanded needs-based programs. The model of residency education will be increasingly decentralized to communities outside the lower mainland. Formal appointments of clinicians to the faculty of medicine will begin in a number of these communities to build strength in decentralized education programs and to ensure commitment to quality and sustainability. College - based on the institution's capacity to accommodate the additional seats. The new nursing seats will be allocated to educational programs and distributed regionally throughout B.C., based on the institution's ability to accommodate the new spaces and student and employer demand.
Medical radiologists operate diagnostic equipment such as x-ray devices and MRIs.
Providing these additional seats will help address the shortages in nursing and medical radiology. This program will provide financial assistance to trained Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses who are upgrading or requiring further education to work in B.C.'s health care system. Potentially 600 trained Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses who are upgrading or requiring further education will benefit from this financial assistance. Applications are available through the Student Services Branch, Ministry of Advanced Education, Technology and Training. This program is intended to result in a reduction in the number of new nurses leaving the profession in the first year of professional practice.