Queen’s University and the City of Oshawa are working together to establish a dedicated home for the university’s growing medical education programs in Durham Region. The site will serve as the academic home for the Queen’s-Lakeridge Health MD Family Medicine Program, and the expanded Queen’s-Bowmanville-Oshawa-Lakeridge Family Medicine residency program. It will also create opportunities for future expansion of medical and other health sciences education programs in the region.

The new facility will be located at 111-117 King St. E. in downtown Oshawa, the former Oshawa Clinic property, which has a long history of providing health care to the community.

“Queen's is proud to be working with the City of Oshawa in establishing a site that will serve as a home base for training physicians in the Durham Region,” says Lisa Tannock, Dean of Health Sciences at Queen’s University. “The transfer of the King Street site brings us one step closer to realizing our vision for an integrated clinical and education facility in the area.”

Queen’s has had a presence in Durham Region for more than a decade through its Family Medicine Residency Program. That presence expanded in 2023 with the launch of the Queen’s-Lakeridge Health MD Family Medicine Program, which welcomes 20 new medical students each year to study and train in Oshawa. As of September 2026, the program has grown to 80 learners.

The expansion supports Queen’s commitment to training future family physicians and addressing primary care needs in Ontario. Research has shown that where physicians train is an important predictor of where they ultimately practise, making local medical education an important part of improving access to care.

To support the establishment of the facility, the City of Oshawa made an investment of $20 million through the acquisition and donation of the King Street East property.

While the property is not yet ready for occupancy, its acquisition marks an important step toward establishing a purpose-designed health sciences education facility in Durham Region. Queen’s will undertake a multi-year planning and construction process, including securing funding for the project, as it works toward its longer-term vision of an integrated clinical and education campus in the region.

For more than 150 years, Queen’s School of Medicine has been training physicians who lead, innovate, and care. The school offers a general MD program on its Kingston campus, a Family Medicine-focused MD program based at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa and over 30 residency and fellowship programs in partnership with Kingston Health Sciences Centre and affiliated hospitals and clinics across Ontario.