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The cost of a medical school education is rising precipitously. According to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, average tuition fees in Ontario for medical school have risen 407 per cent from 1993/94 to 2003/04. In real dollars, that is an increase from $2,838 a year to $14,389.
To help attract Ontario medical students into the practice of family medicine, ALTANA Pharma Inc. (representing the pharmaceutical group ALTANA Pharma AG in Canada) is providing annual family medicine scholarships to students at University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Ottawa, Queen’s University and The University of Western Ontario. Each medical school receives $5,000 a year for the next five years for one annual scholarship.
“The cost of a medical school education is an important issue for students, as tuition is high, particularly in Ontario,” says Dr. John Kelton, Dean of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. “These scholarships shall help encourage medical students to pursue a career in family medicine, and will mean a lot to the medical students who receive them.” |