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Contacts
Website: http://www.med.ualberta.ca/Education/UME/index.cfm
Phone: 780-492-6769
Admissions e-mail: admission@med.ualberta.ca
Program Information
- Doctor of Medicine (MD)
- 4 years in length
- MD/PhD available - click here
- Number of applications in 2009: 1184
- Class size in 2010: 172
- Accepted out-of-province applicants: 15%
Admission Requirements
Course and Degree Requirements
- Degree: Minimum 2 full years of undergraduate study in Canada (any discipline)
- Required Courses
- General Chemistry (6 credits)
- AP credit can be used to receive 3 credits. IB (HL chemistry) can be used to receive 3 credits
- Organic Chemistry (6 credits)
- Biology (6 credits)
- AP credit can be used to receive 3 credits. IB (HL biology) can be used to receive 3 credits
- Physics (6 credits)
- AP credit (grades 4 or 5) will meet 6 credit requirement. IB (HL physics) will meet 6 credit requirement. SL physics will meet 3 credits of requirement
- English (6 credits)
- IB (HL english) will meet the requirement
- Statistics (3 credits)
- AP statistics will meet the requirement (grades 4 or 5)
- Biochemistry (3 credits)
- General Chemistry (6 credits)
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GPA
- Minimum: 3.3 (4.0 scale) for Albertan residents, 3.5 for non-Albertan residents, and 3.7 for two and three year applicants
- Mean Cumulative GPA
- 4-year applicants: 3.8
- 2&3-year applicants: 3.95
- Mean Prerequisite GPA
- 4-year applicants: 3.77
- 2&3-year applicants: 3.94
- Calculation method:
- GPA will be calculated using all transferable post-secondary study done while registered as a full-time student
- If applying after completion of four years of full-time study, the cumulative GPA is calculated with the deletion of the lowest year GPA, provided it is not the most recent completed year
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MCAT
- Minimum scores:
- Physical Sciences – 7
- Biological Sciences – 7
- Verbal Reasoning – 7
- Average scores:
- Physical Sciences – 11
- Biological Sciences – 11
- Verbal Reasoning – 10
- Writing Sample – Q
- Mean MCAT
- 4-year applicants: 10.71 Q
- 2&3-year applicants: 11.72 R
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Supporting Documents
- Activities list: Applicants must fill out an online secondary Medicine Web Application listing employment record, awards, achievements, leadership roles, volunteer work, and diversity of experience.
- Two letters of reference
- Two copies of official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended plus IB and AP transcripts
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Interview
- March 19 & 20, 2011
- Multi Mini Interviews: the interviewee will be exposed without interruption to a series of 8 separate stations each of which will take 10 minutes to complete.
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Timeline
- Jul. 2, 2009: Admissions application for the class beginning in August 2010 will be available
- Nov. 1, 2009: Deadline for initial application; supporting documents due: official transcripts, reference letters and MCAT results
- Feb. 1, 2010: Two official transcripts with the results of first semester due
- Mar. 20-21, 2010: Interviews
- May 15, 2010: Results of the admission process will be sent to all interviewed applicants
- Jun. 15, 2010: Final transcripts of current year due
Tuition 2009-2010
- First year tuition (Canadian student) - $ 7 184.96
- Total first year fees (Canadian student) - $ 12 398.98
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