The University of Toronto will get its first suburban medical training facility next year, a $37-million health sciences complex on the school's rapidly expanding
Mississauga campus.
Built on a little less than half of an existing above-ground parking lot, the 5,960 square metre (60,000 square feet) building will house the Mississauga Academy of Medicine, which will be the academic base for 216 medical students while they complete their clinical training, mostly at the nearby Trillium Health Centre and Credit Valley Hospital.
The province contributed $15.6 million to the project, designed by
Kongats Architects, which the university expects will reach full capacity by 2014.
"The St. George campus has limited ability to expand," says UTM's chief administrative officer, Paul Donoghue, explaining the decision to extend the university's medical faculty to what was for years considered a satellite campus, but which is now gaining a centrality of its own.
The building will also house the biomedical communications program, which trains students to be medical illustrators and animators.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Paul Donoghue