To End the Endless Questions from Americans

[Marquis_Phoenix]

1. University of Toronto (7 out of 224 seats)
2. Queen’s (0 out of 100 seats)
3. Western (0 out of 147 seats)
4. McMaster (approximately 20 out of 162 seats) - “Ninety percent of interview positions will be given to those who qualify as 1) Province of Ontario resident, and 10% to those who qualify as 2) outside Ontario.”
5. Northern Ontario (0 out of 56 seats)
6. Ottawa (0 out of 123 seats)
7. Mcgill (12 out of 172 seats)
8. Dalhousie (theoretically 9 out of 81 seats)
9. University of British Columbia (0 out of 224 seats)
10. Memorial University of Newfoundland (4 out of 60 seats)
11. University of Saskatchewan (6 out of 60 seats)
12. University of Alberta (0 out of 125 seats)
13. University of Calgary (0 out of 100 seats)
14. University of Manitoba (0 out of 101 seats)
15. Universit de Montreal (0 out of …)
16. Universit de Sherbrooke (0 out of …)
17. Universit Laval (0 out of …)

I’m not sure about the last three. It’s ambiguous. I think it’s unlikely they take any international students though, plus you have to be conversant in French. So that leaves you with a total of 58 seats in all of Canada for international students. Good luck. Arguably as difficult to get into for an American student as any of the Ivy League medical schools. Have a nice day.

http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/Englis...3-15528-1.html
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/admiss...egories_en.htm
http://admissions.medicine.dal.ca/admissions.htm
http://65.39.131.180/ContentPage.asp...hical_Stat us
http://www.ouac.on.ca/omsas/pdf/rc_omsas_e.pdf
http://www.med.ubc.ca/education/md_u...quirements.htm
http://www.med.mun.ca/admissions/pag...evaluation.htm
http://www.medicine.usask.ca/admissi...for-admission/
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/medici...rnational.html
http://files.myweb.med.ucalgary.ca/f...pplication.pdf
http://www.med.ualberta.ca/education...fm_require.cfm
http://www.med.umontreal.ca/etudes/admission.htm

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[allthaticanbe]

Last three don't even want to accept out of province much less internationals.
So I suggest crossing them out.

 

[JPMD03]

Sorry "allthaticanbe", Laval and Sherbrooke have ALWAYS accepted students from New Brunswick and PEI. In my class (LAVAL 98 to 03) there was about 5 or 6 out of province students. There was also a student from France.

 

[trustwomen]

AFAIK there are 15 spots for internationals in Quebec med schools; McGill gets 12, the French schools get one each. Since I can't imagine Americans being able to get through med school in French, it's probably fair for Americans to scratch the French schools off their list.

Great list OP, but you forgot to address the other recurring American-initiated threads: "can I get into a US residency after Canadian med school" (Yes) and "do doctors really make less money in Canada?" (not that much less).🙂

p.s. the international applicant pool from McMaster has been put on hold indefinitely, so scratch Mac off the list.

 

[Methodnike]

Sorry "allthaticanbe", Laval and Sherbrooke have ALWAYS accepted students from New Brunswick and PEI. In my class (LAVAL 98 to 03) there was about 5 or 6 out of province students. There was also a student from France.

That's because they have an " entente inter-provinciale", no med school in PEI or New Brunswick.

 

[peacefuljourney]

Hi,

One more thing that I'm not sure you accounted for is that within some of those numbers (i.e. the available spots) are spaces for 'country sponsored' folks - mostly gulf states. If you're from UAE, Kuwait, Saudi etc. their governments have direct deals with schools and certain spaces are available to them.

So, although you might see 18 spaces at Dalhousie for example, many or all of those are 'set aside' for the country sponsored people.

FYI. S-

 

[Scottish Chap]

....McMaster will not take internationals (in spite of what is posted; you need to ignore that)....and the competition for international spots is only against other international applicants - not Canadians.

 

[knio]

....McMaster will not take internationals (in spite of what is posted; you need to ignore that)....and the competition for international spots is only against other international applicants - not Canadians.

Actually, internationals can apply in the regular applicants pool and compete against other out-of-province Canadians, although the preference would be Ontario residents > non-Ontario Canadians > internationals. At least this is what I was told when I contacted the admission office earlier this year.

 

[Scottish Chap]

Actually, internationals can apply in the regular applicants pool and compete against other out-of-province Canadians, although the preference would be Ontario residents > non-Ontario Canadians > internationals. At least this is what I was told when I contacted the admission office earlier this year.

That's the problem. Things are not always what they seem. I guarantee you that internationals will not be accepted at McMaster. However, if you feel like you have money to throw away....... Regarding the competition for international spots - I was referring to the other Canadian schools that do take internationals (so, again, not McMaster). Sorry - my error for not making that clear.