Negotiations for the opening of a medical school in Gozo are at an advanced stage, Health Minister Konrad Mizzi (left) said during a visit by President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca to Bart’s Medical School in London, where they met the directors. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed earlier this year between the health and education ministries and the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The school will be a Queen Mary institution, with this university’s staff providing teaching in the early years of study while Maltese hospital staff would provide clinical teaching in the last three years of the course.

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