Ontario will not allow international students in medical schools beginning in the fall of 2026, and will also cover tuition for more than 1,000 students who commit to becoming a family doctor in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford said Friday.
Through upcoming legislation, the province aims to reserve at least 95 per cent of medical school spots for Ontario residents and the remainder for students from other parts of Canada.
"We are going to prioritize Ontario residents because those are our taxpayers that are paying those students to go to school," Jones said. The grant program, also beginning in 2026, is expected to cost $88 million and be extended to 1,360 eligible undergraduate students. The province says the program should allow 1.36 million more Ontarians to connect to primary care.A study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information released on Thursday said 12 per cent of Ontarians do not have a family doctor.
This week, the province appointed former federal Liberal health minister Jane Philpott to a new role with a goal of connecting every Ontarian to primary care within the next five years.The province is also expanding its health teams model, which sees patients connect to clinics where they have access to physicians, but also nurse practitioners and other services like physical rehabilitation and mental-health care.
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