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鈥淭his major milestone brings the school of medicine even closer to opening its doors to the next generation of doctors, and to empowering them to innovate, disrupt and drive change within the health-care system,鈥� TMU President Mohamed Lachemi said in Friday’s news release.

The school, , will have 94 undergraduate seats and 105 postgraduate residency positions, and will “foster an inclusive, equitable and community-focused system,” according to the university.聽

贬辞耻蝉别诲听, the school will be based in a fast-growing community that has been particularly . According to TMU, 60 per cent of residencies will be in family medicine and undergraduate students will be actively engaged within Brampton.

William Osler Health System will be the school鈥檚 primary clinical partner but TMU also has affiliate agreements with others including Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga and western 色色啦, and Headwaters Health Care Centre in Orangeville.

The school will begin . The university said it will take a holistic approach to admissions and not rely solely on academic performance but also life experience.

The competition to get into medical school is extremely high, with an .

TMU said it will recruit and “purposefully admit” Indigenous, Black and others equity-deserving students in a bid to address the “persistent underrepresentation of these groups in medical schools and the medical profession.”

“We recognize that excellent medical school candidates from many groups face barriers in both applying and being admitted to medical school,” the school’s , told the Star. “Our purposeful admissions pathways are designed not only to eliminate those barriers for applicants from equity-deserving groups, but to provide a supportive and inclusive process.”聽

TMU said the program聽鈥� whose annual tuition is set at $25,604聽鈥� will help medical students become a “new kind of physician.” That’s a similar promise the university made for the law profession when it launched the in 2020 with a declaration that is was “time to reimagine legal education.”

鈥淭MU has seen success with our inclusive and innovative approach in our law school, and similarly expects to train a new type of physician in our medical school,鈥� Michael Forbes, TMU鈥檚 assistant vice-president, university relations, told the Star. 鈥淧hysicians that are culturally respectful, technologically advanced, committed to team-based care, and prepared to transform our health-care system.鈥�

On Friday, TMU received its preliminary go-ahead from the , which allowed the school to formerly open admissions. Full accreditation, according to TMU, is generally granted after a charter MD class has completed their final year.聽

There are currently six medical schools in Ontario: McMaster, Queen’s, Western,聽NOSM University,聽the University of Ottawa and the . The GTA will get 听飞丑别苍 in Vaughan in 2028.