Cape Breton Medical Campus opening new facility in Sydney

Cape Breton Medical Campus will open its new facility on Thursday.

Premier Tim Houston will be in Sydney, N.S., for the opening of the new medical sciences building at the Cape Breton Medical Campus (CBMC).

The new building will be adjacent to the main Cape Breton University campus, said the news release.

CBMC welcomed its first cohort of students in August. The inaugural class had 30 students who committed to practicing medicine in rural parts of the province for five years after graduation. Classes have been held at the former Nova Scotia Community College while construction finished on the medical sciences building.

CBMC is a partnership between Dalhousie Medical School and Cape Breton University. The province announced it would spend $58.9 million to develop the campus in March 2023 and continue to fund it for two years.

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