The government is investing in the largest medical school education expansion in more than a decade by adding 340 undergraduate seats and 551 postgraduate medical residency positions, representing a 67 per cent increase in family medicine learners. With the addition of the York University School of Medicine in September 2028, Ontario will have eight medical schools and is expected to have a total of 1,292 undergraduate and 1,739 postgraduate seats once medical expansion initiatives reach maturity in 2033.
This builds on the opening of the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine, Ontario’s first new medical school in 20 years, which successfully enrolled its inaugural postgraduate cohort of 110 students last year, as well as its first undergraduate cohort of 94 students last fall.
Building and expanding medical schools will mean more doctors working in communities across the province, providing the world-class care Ontario families need and deserve.