Table 1 Research / research experiences within Canadian medical schools’ institutional values, selection criteria, and application materials
Institutional values | Selection criteria | Application | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Suggests research experiences are important for selection to medical school | Suggests research experiences are not important for selection to medical school | |||||||
Research as a value to the physician/learner | Research as a value to society | Research as an indicator of prestige | Suggests research experiences are important for selection to medical school | Suggests research experiences are not important for selection to medical school | Exclusive section(s) to describe research experiences | Section(s) prompt description of research experiences via examples | No section to describe research experiences | |
Dalhousie University | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
McGill University | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
McMaster University | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Memorial University of Newfoundland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Northern Ontario School of Medicine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Queen’s University | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
University of Alberta | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
University of British Columbia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
University of Calgary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
University of Manitoba | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
University of Ottawa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
University of Saskatchewan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
University of Toronto | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Université de Montréal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Université de Sherbrooke | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Université Laval | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Western University | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Total (/17) | 13 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 4 |