American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine

Medicine
Canadian universities
Alberta UBC Calgary Dalhousie Laval Manitoba McGill McMaster Memorial Montréal Northern Ontario Ottawa Queen's Saskatchewan Toronto UWO U of Windsor
American universities
Arizona Baylor Boston Univ. Brown UC Davis UC Irvine UCLA UCSD UCSF Case Western Chicago Colorado Columbia Cornell Creighton Dartmouth Duke East Carolina East Tennessee EVMS Emory Florida Int. U George Washington Georgetown Harvard Hawaii Howard IUPUI Iowa Johns Hopkins Kansas Kentucky Loma Linda LSU New. Or. Marshall Maryland Massachusetts Mayo Clinic Michigan MCW Med. U of the Americas Morehouse Mt. Sinai Med. Ctr NYMC NYU UNC Oklahoma UPenn Penn State Robert Wood Johnson Rosalind Franklin Rush Saint Louis South Alabama Stanford SUNY Buffalo SUNY Downstate SUNY Upstate South Carolina Texas Thomas Jefferson Touro (New York) Tufts Utah Vanderbilt Vermont V.Commonwealth Virginia Washington (Seattle) Washington (St. Louis) Wake Forest Wayne State UWisc-Mad Wright State Yale Yeshiva Univ.
British universities
Bristol Cambridge Glasgow Imperial College Liverpool Manchester Oxford Queen Mary Southampton UC London
Australian universities
ANU Flinders Melbourne New South Wales Queensland Sydney
International universities
Aga Khan AUC Auckland Belize CUHK HKU Guadalajara MSIH RCSI Saba St. George's Tel Aviv UC Cork UC Dublin Windsor U

Contacts

Website: http://www.aucmed.edu/
Phone: 866-DR2B-AUC (372-2282) and 305-446-0600
Admissions e-mail: applicants@aucmed.edu

Program Information

• Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 4 years in length
• 9% of student body is Canadian - more information here

Admission Requirements

Course and Degree Requirements

• Degree: Minimum of 90 semester credits of college level courses (equivalent of 3 years at Mcgill)
  • Bachelor's degree preferred but not required
• Required Courses
  • Biology with Lab (6 credits)
  • General chemistry with Lab (6 credits)
  • Organic chemistry with Lab (6 credits)
  • General physics with Lab (6 credits)
  • English (6 credits)
• Recommended Courses
  • Genetics
  • Cellular biology
  • Developmental biology
  • Comparative anatomy
  • Mathematics
  • Humanities
  • Social sciences

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GPA

• Average accepted Overall score 2009: 3.23
• Average accepted Science score 2009: 3.05

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MCAT

• Average accepted score 2009: 25
• MCAT must have been written with five years of application

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Supporting Documents

• Completed application (available online or in pdf)
• A recent photograph
• Personal essay (one 8.5x11 page, typed, 750 words max)
  • Essay should touch on why applicant wants to pursue medicine, what qualities would make them a good physician, the applicant's goals, etc.
• Chronological list of education/work experience/extra-curriculars since graduation from high school (1 page, typed)
• Letters of reference
  • At least two must be from science professors who have taught the applicant
    • Letters form a Pre-Medical Advisory Committee are preferable
  • Additional references may be submitted
  • Letters must be on letterhead stationary and send directly from the writer
• Official transcripts (send directly from registrar)
• MCAT scores

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Interview

• Applicant may be asked to come for an interview, as determined by the Admissions Committee

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Timeline

• No specific deadline (rolling admissions)
• Semesters begin in January, May and September
  • Applicants are advised to apply 4-5 months prior to term to which they are seeking admission

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Tuition 2009-2010

• Basic Science Semesters
  • Semesters 1-5: USD$ 16,000
• Clinical Semesters
  • Semesters 6-9: USD$ 17,700
  • Semester 9.5: USD$ 8,850

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