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The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine was es- The program is structured so that the pre-clerkship cur-
tablished in 1967 and renamed the Cumming School of riculum is taught year-round, without an extended sum-
Medicine in 2014. It is one of two medical schools in mer break (as is common in 4-year MD programs). This
Alberta and one of 17 in Canada. The Faculty and med- structure allows the pre-clerkship portion of undergradu-
ical school is linked to the hospitals in Alberta Health ate medical education to be shortened in length, without
Services such as Foothills Medical Centre, Alberta limiting the breadth of medical knowledge required for
Childrens Hospital, Rockyview General Hospital and students to be competent before entering the clerkship
Chinook Regional Hospital. Trainees in faculty of phase of the curriculum.
medicine include 486 medical students (UME), 767 res-
idents (PGME), 190 post doctoral fellows (PDF) and
491 graduate students. It is one of two 3 year med- 3 Institutes
ical schools, along with McMaster University Medical
School, in Canada. In addition, the University of Cal-
Thematic institutes were formed between Faculty of
gary Cumming School of Medicine oers an undergrad-
Medicine and the Calgary Health Region that support and
uate Bachelor of Health Sciences degree and a Bachelor
fulll the vision and mission of these two entities. Philo-
of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies de-
sophically, institutes encompass activities in all three ar-
gree.
eas of education, research and care delivery.
Currently there are six Institutes identied as follows:
1 Program Oerings
McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health
Doctor of Medicine (MD) Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Leaders in Medicine (Joint MD/PhD program) Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute of Infec-
tion, Immunity & Inammation
Bachelor of Health Sciences (BHSc)
Alberta Childrens Hospital Research Institute for
Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation and Disabil-
Child and Maternal Health (ACHRI)
ity Studies (BCR)
Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
Neurological Sciences and Mental Health
Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute
Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences
Calgary Institute for Population and Public Health
Pathology
Immunology
4 Faculty of Medicine Depart-
Community Health Sciences
ments
Gastrointestinal Sciences
Anaesthesia
Medical Sciences Graduate Division of Education
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Cardiac Sciences
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2 6 REFERENCES
Family Medicine
Medicine
Medical Genetics
Oncology
Paediatrics
Psychiatry
Radiology
Surgery
5 Location
The faculty is located on the Foothills Campus of the Uni-
versity of Calgary in the Health Sciences Centre. This
facility is annexed to Foothills Medical Centre.
6 References
Graduate Studies
Faculty of Medicine
Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
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