Canadian MD/PhD Programs
British Columbia

The combined MD/PhD Program is an integrated program jointly administered by the Faculty of Medicine and Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Its purpose is to provide selected and highly qualified students the opportunity to combine their medical school experience with intensive scientific training in a PhD graduate program, in order to pursue careers as clinician-scientists. The program is designed such that students can receive the combined MD/PhD degree after successful completion of seven years of enrolment. The program of study is built upon the standard MD curriculum, but it is further “customized” to meet the unique PhD training program requirements of individual students based on their background, previous research experience, and chosen medical field of expertise.
In addition to fulfilling the requirements of the regular undergraduate MD curriculum, MD/PhD students will also undertake graduate level coursework as required by their chosen field of research. Curriculum planning, coursework, and research training are to be closely integrated and coordinated between the basic sciences and clinical disciplines throughout the 7-year program. Thus, graduates of the MD/PhD Program are trained as competent physicians as well as skilled scientists. The combined MD/PhD degree should adequately prepare the graduates to pursue a research-intensive track of residency and postdoctoral training in a specialty or discipline of their choice, ultimately leading to a competitive and independent clinical investigative career.
Alberta

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The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta offers the MD/PhD program within its opportunities for medical research education. This program allows students to obtain the MD degree and a PhD degree, while preparing them for a career as a clinician-scientist. The MD/PhD program is intended for exceptional students who are seriously committed to a career in medical research. The PhD typically takes four to six years to complete, depending on department. This is in addition to the four years required to complete the MD degree. Once enrolled in the program, students complete the first two years of the MD program. They are officially registered as an MD/PhD students and then start or resume their PhD program. When the PhD is completed, the students return to the final years of the MD program.
MD/MBA Program
The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and the School of Business offer a program of combined study which permits highly qualified students to earn both the MD and MBA degrees within five years. The notion is that students could apply for leave between years two and three of the MD program to complete the condensed MBA program.
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The Leaders in Medicine (LiM) joint degree program is a joint physician-scientist training program at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine. The program is designed to enable highly motivated students to complete a graduate and medical degree through the University of Calgary. The program's objective is to train clinicians for a diverse range of careers in academic medicine. Students can expect to develop a unique academic approach to clinical experiences, and to bring a clinical perspective to research.
Our students are registered in MD/PhD and MD/MSc programs, as well as MD/MBA and MD/MA degrees. The most common graduate programs selected by Leaders in Medicine participants are offered through the Cumming School of Medicine, although students from many other faculties including Business and Engineering are welcome to participate.
Saskatchewan

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The College of Medicine offers combined programs with other colleges in the University that lead to MD/PhD and MD/MBA degrees.
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MD/MBA Program
Manitoba

MD/MSc Program
Ontario

There is no formal MD/PhD program, but please contact the undergraduate medical education office at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

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The MD/PhD Program aims to train clinician scientists to become leaders in medical research and patient care. The program selects a few exceptional students with a passion for research and combines this with undergraduate medical training, preparing them to become future leaders in medical research and patient care. The program offers training with leading scientists and integrates laboratory work with medical school, compressing the time to obtain both degrees to just seven years.

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Our MD/PhD Program, the largest national program of its kind, trains and mentors the next generation of clinician scientists. Clinician scientists are trained as medical doctors and scientists. They are in the unique position of pursuing both scientific research and clinical practice, translating academic excellence into health care excellence for Canadians every day. Our program attracts the very best medical researchers to U of T PhD programs, and has produced successive generations of innovative health leaders. Through collaborative and interdisciplinary research, we are advancing medicine and improving health around the world.
The MD/PhD Program trains physician scientists who are well prepared for both research and clinical practice. Year 1: start MD Program; year 2: start PhD program; and year 5-6: return to MD program. Throughout the eight to nine years of the MD/PhD Program, students are expected to attend the bi-weekly research and career development seminars.
MD/PhD students from U of T continue to distinguish themselves as graduate students and as clinical clerks in the medical school. Our graduates are found in many different medical and surgical specialties, and the majority mature into clinician scientists who occupy academic medical positions at universities nationally and internationally. The MD/PhD Program continues to expand while providing unparalleled financial, career and academic support for our students.

The combined MD/PhD and MD/ Master’s Programs provide benefits to both scholarship and to the professional development of physician-scientists by allowing better integration of clinical and research training experiences, and also provide better opportunities for fostering translational research.
The combined MD/PhD and MD/Master’s programs at Queen’s University are offered jointly by the School of Medicine and the School of Graduate Studies, with the participation of the graduate programs in Biomedical Engineering (Collaborative Program), Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Cancer Research (Collaborative Program), Computing, Epidemiology, Neuroscience, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and Rehabilitation Science.

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Quebec

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Faculty of Medicine offers a combined clinical and academic medicine program leading to the M.D.,C.M. and Ph.D. degrees (Combined Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery with Doctor of Philosophy). This is a 7-year program in which the basic and clinical sciences portion of the medical curriculum are completed from September of year one to December 31 of year two, prior to the beginning of full-time graduate studies. The latter are expected to last three, but no more than four years by which time all course work and research requirements for the Ph.D. degree must be completed and a thesis submitted. The defence of the thesis will ordinarily take place at a later date. From January of year five to May of year seven students will complete the requirements for the M.D.,C.M. degree. Throughout the seven years, students in the M.D., C.M., & Ph.D. program meet at two-week intervals during the academic year to discuss their research, attend research seminars from clinician-scientists from within, as well as outside, the McGill scientific community, and network with other students in the program.
Nova Scotia

WebsiteThere is no formal MD/PhD program, but please contact the undergraduate medical education office at Dalhousie University.
Newfoundland and Labrador

MD/PhD Program
MD/Graduate Diploma and MD/MSc Program