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The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa is a bilingual medical school in Ottawa, Canada. It is located at a campus centred on Roger-Guindon Hall in the east end of Ottawa and is attached to the Ottawa Hospital's General Campus. The Health Sciences Complex is separate from the downtown University of Ottawa campus.
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Undergraduate program
The current undergraduate MD program at the University of Ottawa is a 4 year program accepting about 160 students per year; 44 in the French stream and 116 in the English stream. All courses are offered in both languages and students can attend any course they choose. Exams are written in either language. The undergraduate MD curriculum has recently undergone major changes. The first year for the new curriculum was the 2008-2009 school year. Major changes include a more global teaching system with 1 cumulative exam per semester, the restrictions of classes to the hours between 8am and noon to allow students to complete more elective experiences as well as the institution of Self-Learning Modules (SLM) which the student complete on their own time outside of class.
The undergraduate medical society is known as the Aesculapian Society.
In 2015-16, the medical program introduced the CASPer test, developed by McMaster University Medical School, as part of their admissions process.
In 2016-17, the medical program will begin using the MCAT.
Research and graduate programs
The Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine (CMM) is a large dynamic interdisciplinary department consisting of 30 faculty researchers and teaching staff, as well as 63 cross-appointed or adjunct members. It offers graduate programs at the M.Sc and Ph.D level, as well as post-doctoral training. The department maintains an active and well-funded multi-disciplinary research program for the study of normal and pathological cell function in a variety of physiological systems. Specific faculty research interests include computational biology, cancer, cardiovascular regulation, growth and development, the gastrointestinal system, renal function, obesity and diabetes, pharmacology and neuroscience. CMM was formed from the combined resources of three former departments of the University of Ottawa: Physiology, Pharmacology and Anatomy & Neurobiology. CMM is part of the Ottawa Health Sciences Centre, a medical complex which also includes the Ottawa Hospital (General Campus), Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), the Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, (OHRI) Ottawa Health Research Institute (General Campus), the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.
Teaching hospitals and research affiliations
The medical school is associated with the following teaching hospitals:
The Faculty is affiliated with several research institutions including:
Notable alumni
Philip Steven Wells (graduated 1984), clinical hematologist responsible for the internationally renowned Wells' Criteria for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism, through which many emergency departments stratify possibility of DVT and PE.