Université de Montréal Medical Students First in MCC National Exams for Sixth Consecutive Year
Vice-dean Raymond Lalande extends his warmest congratulations to the students and their teachers, whose methods are obviously highly effective.
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UdeM Medical students once gain finish first at Medical Council of Canada examinations. |
For the sixth year in a row, graduates of the UDM Faculty of Medicine have distinguished themselves at the Medical Council of Canada examinations. For students of Canada’s 16 faculties of medicine, these examinations mark the successful conclusion to their studies and are a prerequisite to entering into medical practice in this country.
Dr. Raymond Lalande, vice-dean of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Medicine, has hailed the success of the graduates under his responsibility. “Our graduates are brilliant young professionals. They were chosen from among the best c andidates, have followed a highly dem anding training program and are performing exceptionally well on national examinations. We are immensely proud of them.”
“There’s nothing ordinary about this and it’s certainly no fluke that our students are so successful, year after year,” Dr. Lalande added. “They can count on our dedicated members of the medical teaching staff, who care deeply about passing on their knowledge and their love of medicine to train the succeeding generation to the highest level.”
MCC examination results published this fall show UDM students, like their colleagues in previous years, coming first on the tests for general medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and surgery, as well as scoring the highest overall marks on the examinations. The Medical Council of Canada is responsible for establishing medical qualifications in Canada and maintains an updated national register of doctors and their respective qualifications.
UDM medical student scores on the national examinations confirm the advantages of a teaching method that favors a problem-solving approach to learning and early immersion in a clinical environment, a method introduced by the faculty over ten years ago. This program continues to evolve in an ongoing fashion, and teaching materials are revised yearly. This makes it possible to rapidly assimilate the latest research data into the course, often raising new challenges to existing methods and approaches.
