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Article: Mayors reach consensus on medical school.(Brief Article)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- June 1, 2001
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Mayor disgruntled by province's decision, but willing to support initiative
A single "made-in-the-North" medical school is unacceptable and will not address doctor shortages in northwestern Ontario, Thunder Bay Mayor Ken Boshcoff says.
In response to the province's decision to base a Northern Ontario medical school out of Sudbury's Laurentian University with Lakehead University in Thunder Bay hosting a satellite clinical component, Boshcoff says Thunder Bay and the rest of northwestern Ontario have nothing to gain if the training facility is located in Sudbury.
* Boshcoff attended a May 23 meeting in Thunder Bay that brought about 50 ...