Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara 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.uag.edu/medicine/index.htm
Phone: (01152) (33) 36.48.83.05 or 1-800-531-5494
Admissions e-mail: admissions@uag.edu

Program Information

• Título de Médico-Cirujano (Degree of Physician-Surgeon)
  • This is the Mexican equivalent of a medical degree
  • To practice in Canada, one must qualify for Canadian Resident Matching Service
  • For more information about CARMS, click here
  • To practice in U.S., one must qualify for the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
  • For more information about ECFMG, click here
• 4 years in length
• Class size: ~100
• Note: Only first two years are mostly taught in English. Must learn Spanish to complete internship in third and fourth years

Admission Requirements

Course and Degree Requirements

• Degree: A minimum of 90 credit hours, though a completed Bachelor’s is preferable
• Required Courses
  • Biology (8 Credits)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (8 Credits)
  • Organic Chemistry (8 Credits)
  • Physics (8 Credits)
  • Mathematics (6 Credits)
  • English (6 Credits)

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GPA

• Minimum GPA: 3.0

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MCAT

• Average combined score: 29
• Test must have been written within 3 years of application deadline
• Test must be written by the fall preceding year of admission

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Supporting Documents

• Application process consists of two phases, the second applies only to those invited to interview
• Phase One:
  • Enrolment Application Form through UAG website
  • Student Background Check here
  • Unofficial College Transcript
  • 2-10 page personal statement
  • Letter of Recommendation from pre-medical advisory committee OR two letters of recommendation from science professors
  • 2 passport sized photos

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• Phase Two:
  • Birth certificate
  • Official 7th and 8th grade transcripts, in addition to high school transcript & diploma
  • Official and complete college transcript
  • Official MCAT score

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Timeline

• Admission is granted on a rolling admissions policy basis
• Two entering classes per year: August and January

Tuition 2009-2010

• Yearly Tuition: $22,000 USD
• Tuition is same for each year
• Application fee: $75

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