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University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
  • Year founded: 1967
  • ENROLLED TOTAL: 170
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University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
Allopathic Medical School
Calgary, AB
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  • SDN RANKING 2
  • INTERVIEW FEEDBACK 1 20 Responses
  • SCHOOL REVIEWS N/A 0 Responses

Overview

Overview

School Stats

  • Resident Tuition $16,063
  • Non - Resident Tuition N/A
  • Application Fee $0
  • AVG MCAT 509
  • AVG GPA 3.9
  • LIZZYM Score 68.5
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Admissions Information

  • Office of Admissions
  • Room G740 - Health Sciences Centre
  • 3330 Hospital Drive NW
  • Calgary, AB T2N 4N1
  • Canada

School Overview

University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine Fast Facts

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School Info

The Faculty of Medicine has four main educational components: undergraduate, including medical and health sciences; post graduate medical; graduate science, and; continuing medical education. Together they represent the continuum of learning from the moment a prospective physician enters medical school through to his or her professional practice or beyond.

Curriculum

There are 7 block courses plus the longitudinal courses of Medical Skills, Research Methods and Evidence-Based Medicine, and Applied Evidence-Based Medicine in the 2 pre-clerkship years. The third and final year is called the Clinical Clerkship. During this time, students work on hospital wards, in ambulatory care clinics and doctors' offices as well as in the Emergency Room. All students will spend from 4 to 10 weeks in community hospitals in Southern Alberta learning Family Medicine as well as some specialties.ÿ During the clerkship students rotate through a variety of specialties spending from 4-12 weeks in each.

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Interview Feedback

Interview Feedback

Results Overview

How did the interview impress you?

Response # Responders
Positively 12
Negatively 3
No change 5

What was the stress level of the interview?

Response Avg # Responders
4.79 19

0 = low, 10 = high

How you think you did?

Response Avg # Responders
6.55 11

0 = low, 10 = high

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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

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What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?

"Alternative vs. Traditional Health Care approaches. Why is there tension?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Can't give specifics but it doesn't matter because next year they will be totally different! Just wait until you finish this interview, when you see the scenarios you will understand that the possibilities are infinite and they won't be repeated. Oh, and you will also see that your prep didn't help you at all!" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"scenarios..." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Just lots of scenarios, so just be sure to learn your ethics and look at things from every angle" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Your buddy is failling a course and needs your help, how do you address his problem" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why Calgary?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why not nurse?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had a million dollars to spend in the health care sector where would you spend it?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"questions about my research experience (I have an MSc), research related ethics questions, how would you fix the health care system, if you had 3 wishes what would they be" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What unique experiences do you bring to medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Essay question: If you could invite any artist (photographer or painter), dead or alive to do your portrait, who would you choose, and why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you like and dislike about the U of C program? Tell me about a bad decision you made and what you learnt from it?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you feel about the latest develpoments in health care with all the reports having been released?? (i.e. romanow, kirby, mazankowski)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What specialty do you want to go into" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"Asked to describe what I saw in a picture! Wasn't expecting that!" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Naturopathic medicine q?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"It was all the most random scenarios I have ever seen. Honestly, there is NOTHING you can do to prepare for this interview. One personal question was asked but it wasn't any of the one's you would have prepared for or expected." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The multiple-mini interview format had a lot of interesting scenarios." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"they were all scenario based, very different than most schools" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"lots of scenarios about patient confidentiality and autonomy" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"who looks up to you the most and why/ vs who looks up to you the least and why" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you feel about alternative medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What I would change about my current job skills in order to be a MD" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell us about a time when you were broke and had no money." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your biggest regret in life?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had a 3 yr old patient who asked you 'why is the sky blue', what would you say?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would your friends describe your sense of humor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Would you want to be a doctor if the pay was $30,000 per year?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"It was a very interesting discussion." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What 3 people (dead or alive) I would invite over for dinner and what would i serve." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Because I have a MSc I was asked some ethical questions about working for big pharmaceutical companies. How I felt about their motives, etc. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Doctors make more money and work fewer hours in the United States - would you ever consider practicing there?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me a joke" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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