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TORONTO — Approximately $8 million is being invested by the Ontario government to support planning for 16 new and expanded primary care teaching clinics across the province.

Each teaching clinic will receive up to $500,000 to support the work.

In partnership with Ontario’s medical schools, these clinics will train family medicine residents in a team-based model alongside other health care professionals, such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered nurses, explains a release.

Initial teaching clinics are targeted to open in 2027-28, with further expansion to follow.

This funding is part of the government’s broader investment of up to $300 million – part of the $2.1 billion Primary Care Action Plan – to build new and expanded community-based primary care teaching clinics in areas with high rates of unattachment. In addition to this funding, two new primary care teaching clinics at Toronto Metropolitan University will bring the total to 18.