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A new medical school in Brampton, Ont., has started training a new generation of family physicians to address a major doctor shortage in Canada, but educators hope they will also better reflect the people they're helping.

The idea behind Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Medicine is to train doctors who know more about their patients — from language, to culture and even traditional diets — so they can better serve their health needs without worrying about that advice getting lost in translation.

"It's so exciting to be able to do something I'm so passionate about and do it in the city that I've grown up in," Gurleen Kaur Chahal of Brampton, one of the school's first-year medical stud

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