McGill University is set to open up a satellite medical school in Gatineau.
The facility, which will be located in the Gatineau Hospital will open in 2020, when it accepts 24 students.
The number of students accepted will double in the third year.
Just over 90 per cent of the program will be conducted in French.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard was in Gatineau for the announcement Tuesday and said the facility would improve the services and health care offered to patients in the area.
The province is investing nearly $23-million into the satellite campus.