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Contacts

Website: http://www.schulich.uwo.ca/admissions/medicine
Phone: 519-661-3744
Admissions e-mail: admissions.medicine@schulich.uwo.ca

Program Information

• Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 4 years in length
• Average number of applications: 2000
• Class size in 2011: 171
• Must be a Canadian Citizen or a Permanent Resident
• Applicants are required to spend their 3rd year outside of London or Windsor in the SWOMEN teaching sites
• Applicants classified as either Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network (SWOMEN) or non-SWOMEN
  • SWOMEN region: Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth, Oxford, Middlesex, Lambton, Chatham-Kent, Elgin, Norfolk, and Essex Counties)
• Combined Programs:
  • MD/PhD – 3 spots
  • MD/BESc – 3 spots
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/MD/MSc – 1 spot

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Admission Requirements

Course and Degree Requirements

• Degree
  • Finishing or have already completed a 4-year honours or equivalent undergraduate degree (any discipline)
  • Note: Honours degree or equivalent requires applicants to take courses 3/5 courses in the same level as their year (i.e. U2/third-year students must take third-year or 300- level courses)
  • Applicants must have completed 20 full-year courses by the end of the academic year in which the application is being made

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GPA

• Minimum: 3.70 (4.0 scale)
• Calculation method:
  • Minimum score is required in at least TWO full years (5 courses per semester)
  • 3 full higher-level classes (2nd year or higher) must be taken in at least one of the two years used in the GPA cut-off calculation
  • Repeated courses are NOT included- if a course is repeated in a 5-course term, the GPA will only be counted as 4 courses.
  • Summer courses are NOT included in GPA calculation
  • Classes taken during part year of studies are NOT included in GPA calculation (i.e. If applicant to an extra semester to complete degree)

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MCAT

• Minimum scores for non-SWOMEN applicants
  • Physical Sciences – 9
  • Biological Sciences – 10
  • Verbal Reasoning – 11
  • Writing Sample – O
  • Combined score – 30
• Some flexibility is given to applicants from Southwestern Ontario
• In the 2011-12 application cycle, a minimum of 8 in any one section is acceptable, as long as the combined score is 30 or more. The minimum score for the Writing Sample is O.
• MCAT must be written no more than 5 years prior to the application
  • For multiple MCATs, the most recent testing is used.

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Supporting Documents

• High School Transcript – required at the interview
• 3 Confidential Assessment Forms
• Police Records Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening

Interview

• Candidates invited for an interview are notified by the end of January
• Approximately 450 applicants are interviewed
• Interviews take place during the weekends of March 2nd/3rd and April 6th/7th, 2013
• Each interview is 45 minutes long by a panel of 3 interviewers (1 senior medical student, 1 faculty member, and 1 community member)

Timeline

• Mid July, 2012: OMSAS application becomes available online
• Sept. 15, 2012: Deadline to create OMSAS account
• Oct. 1, 2012: Deadline to submit applications
• Oct. 1, 2012: All transcripts and academic documents must be received by OMSAS
• Oct. 5, 2012: All cheques/money orders must be received
• Oct. 11, 2012: Deadline for MCAT scores to be released to OMSAS
• Feb. 2013: Minimum GPA and MCAT scores posted on the UWO Website
• March 2/3, April 6/7 2013: Interviews take place
• May 14, 2013: First offers of admission
• Late August 2013: White Coat Ceremony
• September 2013: Orientation

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Tuition 2012-2013

• First year tuition - $21 868.70
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