Dalhousie's postgraduate medical faculty offers 53 residency programs at teaching hospitals located across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
History
The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1868. It graduated its first woman in 1894.[1] The school's main teaching location is the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building which is a 15-story high-rise building that opened in 1965 on Dalhousie University's Carleton Campus. The first woman to be appointed Dean was Noni MacDonald in 1999.[2] Today, the Tupper Medical Building houses the administrative offices of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Health Sciences, as well as the Kellogg Health Sciences Library, lecture theatres, a large cadaveric anatomy laboratory, and most of the basic science laboratories in the Faculty of Medicine. It adjoins the CRC, the Clinical Research Centre, via "The Tupper Link" corridor, which is the location of many state-of-the-art lecture halls equipped with teleconferencing technology. The CRC houses the Dean of Medicine's office as well as affiliated administrative offices.
Dalhousie University has developed a reputation for inadequately managed bullying, discrimination, and a toxic workplace culture within the medical realm, due to a history of several medical professional misconduct scandals in Nova Scotia.[4][5]
Curriculum
The Doctor of Medicine program admits 108 students per year. Of these, 78 matriculants attend the Halifax Campus and 30 attend the New Brunswick campus in Saint John, New Brunswick. In 2010, the average undergraduate GPA of accepted applicants was 3.8, and 24 percent of the entering class held graduate degrees.
Dalhousie awards the MD degree to students completing "the Tupper Trail," a new curriculum developed by the Faculty of Medicine.[6] This program incorporates early exposure to clinical skills and clinical electives from Year 1, as well as collaboration projects with students in other health professions.
The Undergraduate Medical Program for the MD degree was initiated in 1868, graduating its first students in May 1900. At present, 108 students are admitted to the program each year.
The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation oversees more than $2 million in medical research a year, with a growth of 27% in the past year.
For 2008, total medical student enrollment was 397, distributed across the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia campuses.
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