The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto is the public university's medical school. Located in the heart of the financial district, it is among Canada's oldest and most revered academic institutions and offers an Undergraduate Medical Education (M.D., doctor of medicine program) in medicine as well as post-M.D., master's, Ph.D., and post-doctoral fellowship programs.
The M.D. program is a four-year degree and houses approximately 850 students. The first two years are designed to provide biomedical and human anatomy knowledge as well as the principles of medical ethics and professionalism. Students spend their final two years in one or more of the university's ten affiliated teaching hospitals and ambulatory clinics to provide hands-on training in various specialties.
Admission to the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is coveted; only eight percent of applicants are admitted to the school's M.D. program. Indeed, some of medicine's finest minds include alumni and faculty from the institution, such as Nobel prize winner Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin, and professor of molecular genetics John E. Dick, credited with identified the cancer stem cell.
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
25 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 1A1
Canada
(416) 978-2011
facmed.utoronto.ca
One of six accredited naturopathic medical schools in North America, only two of which are located in Canada, CCNM offers four-year Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (N.D.) programs from its campus in the North York area of Toronto.
Founded in 1978, CCNM's N.D. program includes four years of full-time study. Upon completion, graduates are licensed to practice in any Canadian or American jurisdiction that regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine. The Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic, a naturopathic teaching clinic that practices holistic and natural healing, sits on the grounds of CCNM and affords students the opportunity to assist senior clinicians with patients. The center logs an yearly average of more than 26,000 patient visits. The deadline for clinical residency applications is February of each year.
Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
1255 Sheppard Ave. E.
Toronto, Ontario M2K 1E2
Canada
(416) 498-1255
www.ccnm.edu
Officially beginning classes in 1966 under the name The Toronto Institute of Medical Technology, today this post-secondary facility operates under the name of The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences and offers professional and advanced practice programs in myriad medical fields, including cardiovascular perfusion, diagnostic cytology, genetics technology, medical laboratory science, nuclear medicine, podiatric medicine, radiation therapy, radiological technology, respiratory therapy, and ultrasound. Michener also offers a range of courses overseas.
Michener boasts annual admissions in excess of 1,000, covering more than seventeen different full-time programs.
The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences
222 St. Patrick Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 1V4
(416) 596-3101
michener.ca/