New SFU medical school names dean, aims for first classes by 2026

Students astatine British Columbia’s first caller medical school successful decades could beryllium taking their seats wrong 2 years.

Premier David Eby confirmed that timeline successful an announcement connected nan planned Simon Fraser University School of Medicine, Tuesday.

“We’re training a caller procreation of doctors pinch a attraction connected family medicine to supply nan services we request successful our communities,” Eby said.

“This finance successful nan first wholly caller aesculapian schoolhouse successful Western Canada successful 55 years will mean much family doctors graduating each twelvemonth to supply attraction for people.”

The caller schoolhouse will connection a three-year competency-based program exemplary and will run connected an interim ground retired of SFU’s Surrey field and a adjacent building.

B.C.’s 2024 fund includes $33.7 cardinal successful superior backing to upgrade nan interim space, on pinch $27 cardinal successful operational funding. The state has already spent $14 cardinal connected startup planning.

Simon Fraser University’s Board of Governors formally approved a caller schoolhouse of medicine successful May.

The state besides named nan school’s founding dean connected Tuesday. The schoolhouse will beryllium led by David J. Price, a aesculapian expert pinch a decade of acquisition of family medicine successful Vancouver and who has served successful module and activity positions astatine McMaster University’s section of medicine since 2000.

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The schoolhouse is moving towards candidacy position pinch nan Committee connected Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools, pinch nan extremity of preliminary legalization by nan autumn of 2025.

If that timeline is achieved, it hopes to spot its first classes beryllium by nan summertime of 2026.

A caller SFU aesculapian schoolhouse was 1 of nan BC NDP’s cardinal 2020 predetermination promises.

At nan time, nan statement pledged to person nan school’s first classes statesman successful 2023-2024, but revealed successful 2022 that nan task would beryllium delayed.

The caller timeline would spot nan first doctors entering nan workforce astir 2030.