Queen’s University Faculty of Health Sciences

Medicine Education Program Highlights In 2010, our primary focus within the School of Medicine was on undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Fast forward 10 years and we now offer a complete 4-year undergraduate degree online in health sciences, an accelerated route to medical education, a combined MD with new graduate programs, and a graduate degree for health professionals. These programs provide a continuum of learning experiences from undergraduate students to clinical educators. A common thread for all programs was our move to a competency-based approach; taking an institutional approach to competency-based medical education (CBME) implementation has allowed for sharing resources and innovations across programs. In the undergraduate sphere, to complement our long-standing UME program, we launched the Queen’s University Accelerated…