About the issue of studying medicine in Canada

The training model for doctors in Canada and the United States: four-year undergraduate degree + four-year medical school MD + 3 to 8 years of clinical internship and residency training == 11 to 16 years. There is no such thing as an undergraduate degree in medical schools in Canada and the United States, and there is no such thing as a combination of bachelor's and master's degrees. The requirements for medical students and graduate students are fundamentally different. The admission requirements and study pressure of graduate students are incomparable to those of medical students.

Unlike Chinese medical schools, you generally must have at least an undergraduate degree before you are eligible to apply for medical schools in Canada and the United States. The entry requirements for any medical school are more difficult to get into than other doctoral programs. Your first undergraduate bachelor's degree must have good grades (GPA must be at least 3.7, that is, at least A-). Grades are only one aspect. Extracurricular hobbies and long-term volunteer experience are very, very important. They are very important to the applicant's social experience and culture. Language and character requirements are very high. The last level of the interview was the most difficult one for me! ! And you must pass the MCAT, a specialized medical school admissions test, with a high score.

Medical school is generally a 4-year program. After completing the 4-year program and passing the junior medical license exam, you will start working as an intern-resident (you cannot practice medicine independently). The salary during this internship period is very low (about 40,000/year). ), it’s also a crazy busy time. If you only want to be a family health doctor, 2-3 years of internship-residency is enough. If you want to be a specialist, you must have an internship-residency of at least 5 years. The internship and residency period must be better than the last medical license, including neurosurgery and plastic surgery. Internship is required - 8 years of residency. In this way, it is not difficult for you to understand why the process of becoming a doctor is a long process that requires brain power, physical strength and perseverance. Compared with China, being a doctor in North America is much more strict, but because of this, doctors’ income, especially their social status, is very high (the average annual salary of family doctors is 180,000, and that of surgeons ranges from hundreds of thousands, and the salary can be very high). reaching more than 1 million).

Medical schools in Canada and the United States do not have any restrictions on applicants’ first undergraduate major (in fact, applicants from different professional backgrounds are strongly encouraged), but no matter what major, before applying to medical school You must complete: biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, English literature, and one other freshman-level college-level course in humanity. Some medical schools also require completion of a first-year psychology and second-year biochemistry course. The competition for admission to medical schools is fierce, and college students who are not excellent in all aspects basically have no hope. The United States and Canada have extremely high requirements for the profession of doctor. Medical school applicants are required to be smart, mature, socially responsible, compassionate, have strong social skills, and enjoy helping others. In this way, it is not difficult to understand why it is required to study for four years as an undergraduate in other majors. It is best to have several years of work experience after graduating from college before entering medical school.

Due to the high standards and high status of doctors, outstanding students from North America are flocking to medical schools, and competition is fierce. Applicants who are not native-born are at a clear disadvantage in terms of culture, language and various soft skills, and these soft skills are the qualities that medical schools value very much.

Relatively speaking, medical schools in the United Kingdom and Australia are more advanced than those in the United States and Canada, and they do not require a bachelor's degree. Therefore, many applicants who have been eliminated in the United States and Canada go to the United Kingdom and Australia. You can study in a medical school in the United States (the tuition is of course higher than in the United States), but you may not be able to return to North America to practice medicine after completing your studies, because the North American Medical Association has strict restrictions on doctors who graduated from outside North America obtaining medical licenses, so many North American students Doctors who graduated from other countries were forced to work as taxi drivers, restaurant waiters, factory workers, etc. in North America to make ends meet.

McGill and Toronto’s medical schools are on par with each other, and both are very famous internationally; language tests are not a problem at all (there are many people with high TOEFL scores, but that is only for foreign countries) (English is not at the same level as the locals), it takes effort to maintain the excellence of your first undergraduate degree and the comprehensive development of extracurricular activities, so as to show to the admission officers of the medical school that you have the qualities to be a doctor. ! !