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6 Description of Medical Training Program

The Faculty of Medicine offers a four-year undergraduate medical education program, comprising a minimum of 189 credit hours, leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD).

The Diversity Statement for the Faculty of Medicine is available on the听Faculty website.

The program consists of four phases: Phases 1-3 explore themes of integrating physician competencies and clinical skills with basic and clinical sciences as they relate to common clinical encounters and patient symptoms and Phase 4 involves integration of knowledge into practice. The first three Phases employ a variety of teaching and learning experiences, including self-directed learning, to听teach听all aspects of health (physical, mental, social, and psychological), disruptions in health that can lead to disease, and all aspects of science, community health, ethics, and clinical skills related to identifying and describing disease and its diagnosis. During Phase 4, students take courses that will allow them to experience major clinical disciplines in hospital and community settings throughout affiliated teaching sites in Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI, and New Brunswick. They participate as members of the health care team, gaining the knowledge and experience necessary to assume the responsibilities associated with patient care.

Medical students are required to participate fully in medical education experiences which occur at various times and communities outside of the St. John檚 and Charlottetown metropolitan areas throughout the undergraduate medical education program.

Students in good academic standing are qualified to write Part I of the licensing examinations set by the at designated times.