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The program is split into two phases: pre-clerkship and clinical clerkship. “This more closely resembles the small-group orientation of most clinical practice in both medical and interprofessional health care teams,” Dr. Students move through the material in small group settings, and are expected to collaborate on reaching their goals-with the gentle guidance of faculty or staff. Rather than memorizing lecture materials on disease and pathology, for example, they build their knowledge, from day one, by understanding how diseases and ailments present in patients. It also means students get a problem-based education. That is, they should have a large degree of control over their career path and success.

Robert Whyte, assistant dean of the undergraduate medical program at McMaster’s Michael G. program was founded in the 1960s on the premise that medical students should learn medicine the way that physicians practice medicine,” says Dr. Students in the three-year condensed program are required to learn just as much as their colleagues in typical four-year programs-but with less supervision. Don’t expect to be coddled at McMaster’s med school.