Faculty of Medicine

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Welcome to the MD Program

Welcome to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa. Our Faculty, although still relatively young, is rapidly growing and is unique in Canada: it offers medical education in both of Canada’s official languages. Thus, with its recent additional mandate to train students of aboriginal background, the Faculty of Medicine is uniquely grounded in Canada’s history and poised to grow with this distinction. The emphasis of the training at the Faculty will be three-fold: competency and skills, professionalism and role modeling, and engagement and leadership in health care delivery. This latter aspect, still not part of many medical school curricula, will be a specific focus at our Faculty and will be supported by the unique opportunities offered by the national and international institutions in our nation’s capital, Ottawa.

Jacques Bradwejn, Dean

Faculty of Medicine