Non-Academic Requirements

In addition to academic requirements, brief personal essays, autobiographical sketches, and references are used in assessing your non-academic qualifications.

Throughout the admissions process, we assess your non-academic attributes, activities and achievements in terms of the Faculty’s mission and values, as well as the MD Program competencies. Our aim is to select students who we believe will make the most empathetic and highly skilled physicians.

Specifically, we evaluate materials according to the following four clusters. These four clusters are based on the CanMEDS Framework that identifies and describes the abilities physicians require to effectively meet the health care needs of the people they serve.

CLUSTER

ATTRIBUTES, ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

PROFESSIONAL

maturity, reliability, perseverance and responsibility

COMMUNICATOR/COLLABORATOR/MANAGER  

communication, collaboration, teamwork, time management and leadership

ADVOCATE

advocacy, community service and social responsibility

SCHOLAR

academic standing, achievements in leadership, research and social responsibility as demonstrated by (but not limited to) awards, conference presentations, publications, and scholarships

Your ability to use the English language will be taken into consideration and you may be requested to submit additional information to supplement the application form.

Specific requirements