Member Statement (8 March 2023)

From Hansard (8 March 2023)

 

University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine Expands Regina-Based Training

Hon. Mr. McLeod: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday the ministers of Health and Advanced Education attended a ribbon cutting at the Regina General Hospital to celebrate the USask [University of Saskatchewan] College of Medicine Regina campus expansion. We now have an advanced teaching environment to educate first-year medical students in Regina and to offer a full four-year medical degree in southern Saskatchewan. Mr. Speaker, the Regina campus also provides high-quality postgraduate residency training in several key areas including family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology.

Providing accessible, high-quality medical education to future physicians is important to our government, and by increasing Regina-based education and programming, we are supporting our province’s recruitment and retention efforts aimed at those physicians. Each year Saskatchewan is training more doctors right here at home. We offer 100 medical student seats, and this year we expanded medical residency seats through the University of Saskatchewan from 120 to 128. This complements the fourpoint plan that we announced last September to recruit, train, incentivize, and retain health care workers of all designations.

Mr. Speaker, we know the members opposite won’t want to hear it, but this government is working with our partners to ensure that our economic growth results in health care investments that work for everyone. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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