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As of 2026, the province will fund an additional eight seats at the Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick at the Université de Moncton.
Province has said 8 new francophone medical school seats will be funded
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 10, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago
Dr. Natalie Banville says having those extra seats is ‘huge’ and will make a big difference for the number of francophone doctors at Vitalité Health Network. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
The vice president of medical affairs at the Vitalité Health Network hopes a bump in the number of francophone medical school seats in New Brunswick will result in more French-speaking doctors choosing to stay in the province to practise.
Last week, the province announced it would fund a further eight medical seats at the Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick at the Université de Moncton. Those new seats will be offered as of 2026.
The province also announced that the number of francophone residency training seats would jump from 18 now to 26 by 2030.
Dr. Natalie Banville said having those seats is “huge,” and will make a “big difference” for the number of Francophone doctors at Vitalité.
She said medical students who train in the province tend to stay here after completing their education.
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