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In Canada, a medical school is a faculty or school of a university that trains future medical doctors and usually offers a three- to five-year Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.D., C.M.) degree. There are currently 17 medical schools in Canada with an annual admission success rate normally below 7.5%. [1]
MD 1854 1854 1858 100 1866 separated from Queen's University to become Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons at Kingston, 1892 rejoined Queen's University [2] Ontario Western University Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry: London, Windsor: MD 1881 1882 1886 171 Ontario University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine: Ottawa: MD 1945 1945 1949
Founded by the Canada Medical Act in 1912, the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) is an organization charged with the assessment of medical candidates and evaluation of physicians through examinations. It grants a qualification called Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada (LMCC) to those who wish to practise medicine in Canada.
The current undergraduate MD program at the University of Ottawa is a 4-year program accepting about 160 students per year; 44 in the French stream and 116 in the English stream. All courses are offered in both languages and students can attend any course they choose. Exams are written in either language.
MD-PhD programs receive funding from various sources, including institutional grants, individual fellowships, and support from the National Institutes of Health . NIH funding, including Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) grants, has played a crucial role in standardizing training approaches and ensuring program quality.
The International Medical Educator of the Year Award is given to an international medical educator who has demonstrated lasting impact and a commitment to enhancing ethics and humanism in residency education. In 2019, the prize was awarded to Dr. Melchor Sánchez Mendiola, MD, MHPE, PhD, from National Autonomous University of Mexico. [90]
It consistently ranks as one of the top medical schools in Canada. [7] The school emphasizes a patient-centered approach to medicine, introducing new students to clinical methods in the first few weeks. [8] Schulich has consistently done well in residency matches, with the fourth highest match rate in Canada in 2012 (95.9%). [9]
A new satellite campus for McGill Medicine for a French stream MD, CM program was established in 2020 for the Outaouais region with a graduating class size of 24 and total of 96 in the program. The establishment of the program is part of a $32.5-million construction project of the Groupe de médecine familiale universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau.