Halifax, NS
🩺 School Overview
Tuition (In State): $23,000
Tuition (Out of State): $23,000
Accreditation Status: Full
Acceptance Rate: N/A
Total Enrollment: 127
Degrees: MD
Founding Year: 1868
Accreditation Year: 1935
Website: https://medicine.dal.ca
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📄 Application Information
Applications Received: N/A
Interviews Granted: N/A
Admitted: N/A
Average MCAT: 516
Average GPA: 3.89
Male: N/A
Female: N/A
Underrepresented:N/A
Interview Feedback Summary
Overall, applicants ranked the school in the top 19% of interviews, indicating it is highly regarded. They found the interview mixed with a moderate stress level, and felt they did okay.
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5 Most Common Secondary Essay Questions for DUFM
- 1. Community, Diversity, and Equity – Describe your personal experience in community service, volunteer work or service/help to another. What did you learn from this experience?
- 2. Academic and Research Experiences – Describe your strongest quality and provide a specific example of this quality. How does this quality relate to the study and practice of medicine?
- 3. Leadership and Teamwork – The Dalhousie Medicine curriculum uses case-based small group learning. Describe one or more examples of your experiences with small group learning or teams and what you have learned from it.
- 4. Understanding and Commitment to Medicine – What does being a physician mean to you? How did you come to this understanding?
- 5. Community, Diversity, and Equity – Health care professionals work with people from diverse and broad populations and experiences. How would you describe your own level of cultural competence/sensitivity? What steps could you take to...
About the School
At Dalhousie Medical School, we foster self-motivated learning, critical thinking, and clinical problem-solving. We expose you to a clinical setting in the first year of studies, believing that being at the bed side sooner is better than later. We facilitate learning in teaching sites around the Maritime provinces, believing in diverse experience. We integrate medical humanities at every level, believing that you will then become a compassionate caregiver, a good communicator, and a balanced individual.
Curriculum
At Dalhousie Medical School, communications skills, medical ethics, medical humanities, and medical research are interwoven into the curriculum from day one. These are truly vital components. Our commitment to training outstanding physicians is evident at every level from undergraduate to postgraduate to continuing medical education. And our research in the field of medical education enriches our own programs as well as those of other medical schools.
Facilities
From humble beginnings, the medical school has grown into the largest health research faculty in Atlantic Canada. Today it occupies three dedicated buildings and incorporates a network of more than 100 teaching sites throughout Maritime Canada, including nine affiliated teaching hospitals. The school boasts more than 1,300 faculty members, and has 21 clinical and basic science departments, 380 undergraduate medical students, 450 postgraduates (residents), and 270 graduate students. Since its founding, the school has graduated more than 7,000 physicians and has contributed to the training of at least as many research scientists. Although most Dalhousie-trained physicians have gone on to practice in the Maritime provinces, Dalhousie medical graduates and researchers fill positions in many of the world's top medical institutions.
SDN Insights
Our analysis of DUFM:
Student Loan Burden: $263,655
A student taking student loans for all 4 years of medical school at DUFM, including tuition, fees, locally adjusted cost of living expenses, incidentals, and interest, can expect to have total student loans of $263,655. Estimate repayment with the SDN School Loan Repayment Calculator.
Cost of Living: Equal to National Average
The cost of living at DUFM is approximately equal to the average cost of living at medical schools nationwide. While planning your finances, you can expect typical expenses comparable to most medical institutions.
Environment
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Although we could tier rank, over the past 25 years we've found no compelling benefit for ranking schools. Students are most successful when they prioritize personal and academic fit over school rank.
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