A new school of medicine is born in Quebec

The new Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sherbrooke accepted its first 32 students in September 1966. The four major objectives of the school are: (1) medical education with emphasis on learning rather than teaching; (2) research in three major fields of endeavour: basic, clinical and medico-social sciences; (3) optimum patient care; and (4) service to society. A new Health Sciences Centre houses the Medical School, 1 420-bed hospital and multidisciplinary laboratories, and eventually will contain the paramedical schools, including a School of Nursing Sciences. The three major divisions of the Faculty are basic, clinical and medico-social sciences. The curriculum of the first two years is correlated and integrated within the "block" system, with participation from all three divisions.