Evidence of meeting #14 for Health in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was spots.
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Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
The trainee does not pay the University of Toronto any dollars. The sponsor pays us $100,000. They also provide the salary and the cost of living for accommodations for the trainee.
Conservative
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
It's either the government or.... There are individual institutions in Saudi Arabia and the other five Middle Eastern countries that send these funded trainees.
Conservative
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Do you mean the total amount that comes into the University of Toronto? Well, our usual number is between 450 and 500 trainees per year, so if you do the math, that's between $45 million and $50 million.
Dre Patricia Houston
It is a significant amount of money that provides funding for our education and research programs.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
That's per year.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
As I told you, last year we had 459. We usually have between 450 and 500 of these learners.
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
Does the money that the University of Toronto collects from foreign-funded visa trainees go into the faculty's general revenue, yes or no?
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Yes and no.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
I'm happy to expand on that.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
The money first comes into the postgraduate medical education office.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
All of the money initially comes into the postgraduate medical education office. We then determine how much money is needed to support the education programs, both centrally in the postgraduate medical education office and centrally across the medical education program.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Then we distribute the money to the departments. Subsequent to that, we send whatever money is still remaining to the dean's office for use to support other education and research activities.
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
So, it goes into general revenue first, and then you decide where it's going to go after that.
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
It comes to the postgraduate medical education office first.
Conservative
Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
It is for the postgraduate medical education office.