University of Western Ontario 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.schulich.uwo.ca/education/admissions/medicine/
Phone: 519-661-3744
Fax: 519-850-2958
Admissions e-mail: admissions.medicine@schulich.uwo.ca

Admission Requirements

General Notes

• Applicants must be Canadian citizens or Canadian Permanent Residents.
• There are two main classes of applicants:
  • SWOMEN Applicants
  • Non-SWOMEN Applicants
  • SWOMEN applicants must have attended high school in the Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth, Oxford, Middlesex, Lambton, Chatham-Kent, Elgin, Norfolk or Essex Counties regions.
• Conditional admission if the minimum GPA has been attained in one previous year and based on the applicant achieving the minimum GPA in the present year of study.
• Applicants may apply to all six Ontario medical schools on one application form available through OMSAS (http://www.ouac.on.ca/omsas/ )

For more information, go to: http://www.schulich.uwo.ca/education/admissions/medicine/documents/AdmissionsPolicy2007_08.pdf

Criteria

Required Classes

• Applicants must be in a four-year honours level program.
  • Note: Honours means enough senior courses have been completed to allow entry into a graduate program; it does not require a research project
• Applicants must have completed 20 full-year courses by the end of the academic year.
• Three 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.

GPA

• Only the years where five full courses have been taken will be considered
• If more than five classes have been taken, only the best five grades will be used in the GPA calculation.
• The minimum GPA must be met in both of the two years used in the average.
• Classes taken during part years of studies (ie.if it took applicant � semester extra to complete degree) will not be included in GPA
• Repeated courses are not allowed and not considered
• Summer courses are not counted in the overall GPA calculation.

See Stats (below) for more information

MCAT

• The MCAT must be written before the application deadline.
  • Only the most recent scores will be used.
  • Only scores within the last 5 years are valid.
  • MCAT cutoffs vary with each year and applicant pool

See Stats (below) for more information

Supporting Documents

• Official Transcripts: official final transcripts from all universities attended.
• MCAT score reports
• Personal Essay
  • Applicant must explain how their personal and academic background has prepared them for medical studies at UWO.
  • Maximum of 300 words and double-spaced.
• 3 letters of reference

Deadlines

• Sept 15, 2007: Deadline to have registered on OMSAS
• October 2: OMSAS application due
• May 15, 2007: Admission offers sent by mail

Tuition

• Estimated expenses for the first year of studies in 2006 (tuition plus fees): $16 012
• OSAP loans, bursaries and university loans information is available at: http://www.registrar.uwo.ca

Statistics

• 147 applicants were admitted in 2006 to 2007.
• Admission statistics for the 2006 to 2007 cycle for SWOMEN (SW) non-SWOMEN (nSW) applicants were:
  • GPA = 3.70 (SW & nSW)
• MCAT scores:
  • BS = 8 (SW), 10 (nSW)
  • PS = 8 (SW), 10 (nSW)
  • VR = 8 (SW), 10 (nSW)
    • Combined BS, PS & VR = 30 (SW & nSW)
  • WS = O (SW), Q (nSW)
    • Writing Sample = M to S
• Total applicants = 2531
• Total interviews = 450 (80 of those were SW)