- Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
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Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Established 1868 (School of Medicine) Dean Dr. Thomas J. Marrie Students 400 Location 
Halifax, NS, CanadaWebsite Faculty of Medicine The Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, otherwise known as Dalhousie Medical School, is a faculty at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Having operated continuously since 1868, it is one of the oldest medical schools in Canada, after Laval, McGill, and Queen's.
Dalhousie Medicine currently teaches the MD degree at two campuses, at both the traditional site in Halifax, and at a newly-opened site in the province of New Brunswick. The New Brunswick program has a class size of 30 in each year, while 79 students attend the Halifax program.
Dalhousie's postgraduate medical faculty offers 53 residency programs at five teaching hospitals across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
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History
Founding of the Medical School
Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine, popularly known as Dalhousie Medical School (DMS), was founded in 1868. The school's main teaching location is the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building.
Today
Mission
The main responsibility of the Faculty of Medicine is to the three Maritime provinces of Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) which have a combined population of over 1.8 million. The teaching hospitals located in the immediate vicinity of the medical school have a total of 2,300 beds covering inpatient and outpatient serives in all branches of medicine. Today, the Tupper Medical Building houses the university’s Faculty of Health Sciences administrative offices and its classroom teaching facilities.
Tupper Medical Building
The Tupper Medical building houses the administrative offices of the medical school as well as lecture theatres, the Kellogg Health Sciences Library, and most of the basic sciences laboratories in the Faculty of Medicine.
Curriculum
The Doctor of Medicine program at Dalhousie admits 109 students per year. Of these, 79 matriculants attend the Halifax Campus and 30 attend the New Brunswick campus in St John, New Brunswick. In 2010, the average undergraduate GPA of accepted applicants was 3.8, and 24 percent of the entering class held graduate degrees.
Dalhousie awards the MD degree to students completing "the Tupper Trail," a new curriculum developed by the Faculty of Medicine.[1] This program incorporates early exposure to clinical skills and clinical electives from Year 1, as well as collaboration projects with students in other health professions.
In 2010, it was reported that Dalhousie medical students placed first in Canada on the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination, the school-leaving exam written by all Canadian MD candidates.[2]
Affiliated Hospitals
- Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (Halifax, NS)
- IWK Health Centre (Halifax, NS)
- Nova Scotia Hospital (Dartmouth, NS)
- Saint John Regional Hospital (Saint John, NB)
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Charlottetown, PEI)
Notable faculty and alumni
- Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915), dean of Dalhousie Medical School, prime minister of Canada in 1896, first president of the Canadian Medical Association.
- Jock Murray (MD'63), neurologist and medical historian in the history of neurology
- Shane Neilson (born 1975), Canadian physician and poet
Statistics
- The Undergraduate Medical Program for the MD degree was initiated in 1868, graduating its first students in May 1900. At present, 100 students are admitted to the program each year.
- The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation oversees more than $2 million in medical research a year, with a growth of 27% in the past year.
- For 2008, total enrollment was 397
Notes and references
Nova Scotia universities 
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