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MD Program Receives Full Accreditation. The Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) has awarded full accreditation to the FoMD’s MD program.
All applicants to the Doctor of Medicine Program must be registered in a baccalaureate degree from a program recognized by the University of Alberta and obtain their degree the year admission is sought or already have completed their degree program. We have no preference for which institution you attend nor which degree program you complete, provided that the institution and program you choose is recognized by the University of Alberta; you should be pursuing your own interests while fulfilling the requirements of your degree program. The MD Program does not require any specific pre-requisite courses. Applicants must have a minimum of 60 transferable units of course weight (ucw).
Courses from external institutions are converted to University of Alberta ucw. Labs that are co-requisites for lectures and are reported as separate courses on external transcripts will not be included in the total ucw; at the University of Alberta a course with a lab component is reported singularly as 3 or 6 ucw.
IB/AP credits received towards your baccalaureate degree are not considered part of post-secondary coursework and will not be used towards your application.
NOTE: We are unable to provide transcript pre-assessment. This includes, but is not limited to, the transferability of courses, recognized degrees, and cGPA calculations. Please contact the Office of the Registrar directly for inquiries regarding recognized degrees. The Office of the Registrar is unable to provide pre-assessment of transcripts for cGPA calculations.
All applicants must complete the MCAT and meet the minimum requirements for each section in a single test sitting to be eligible to apply to the Doctor of Medicine Program.
Meeting the minimum MCAT scores for application does not guarantee admission to the Doctor of Medicine Program. We encourage our applicants to have an alternate career path in mind as the number of qualified applicants exceeds the number of positions we have available in our program.
MCAT scores must be released and verified in your UAlberta Launchpad by the October 4, 2023 1:00:00PM MT deadline. As such, the last testing date we will accept for the 2023/2024 application cycle is September 2, 2023. Please note that you must pay for and submit your Application for Admission, and submit your MCAT Self Declaration form on Launchpad for your scores to go forth in the manual verification process. The verification process is not automatic and therefore requires processing time.
For the 2024/2025 application cycle the last MCAT testing date we will accept is tentatively September 2, 2024. MCAT test scores must be released and verified in your UAlberta Launchpad by the application deadline, which is tentatively set as October 4, 2024 at 1:00:00PM MT.
When choosing your MCAT test date you should keep in mind that test results must be released to us, entered into your application, and verified in the UAlberta Launchpad prior to the application deadline. As such, you should be reviewing the test score release dates when choosing your test date.
You must release your scores to us via the THx system on the AAMC website prior to this deadline. The MCAT must have been written within the last five years prior to application deadline. As such, for the 2023/2024 application cycle, we will not be accepting scores from test dates prior to October 1, 2018. For the 2024/2025 application cycle, we will not be accepting scores from test dates prior to October 4, 2019.
If there is a discrepancy between the information you provide to us and that available from AAMC we will contact you through your UAlberta.ca email account to correct this prior to the October 4 deadline. Should you fail to have a discrepant MCAT score corrected and verified prior to the application deadline your application will be considered incomplete, resulting in the closure of your file.
The single set of test scores that you submit with your application are the only set of scores we will use. You must meet the minimum requirements in one sitting. We do not require applicants to declare their most recent MCAT test date as long as the test date that they are declaring meets the minimum requirements, and was not written prior to October 1, 2018.
The MCAT is comprised of four sections:
1. Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems (CPBS)
2. Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS)
3. Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems (BBFL)
4. Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behaviour (PSBB)
For course recommendations to complete the MCAT, please refer to the AAMC website.
The University of Alberta MD Program is making a change to our MCAT requirement. Commencing July 2022, we will take a threshold approach to the MCAT as applicants’ MCAT scores will no longer be used competitively. Once applicants meet our MCAT eligibility requirements (see below), their scores will not be used to assess their application.