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Serving society’s needs is of the utmost importance, and requires training graduates who are well equipped to assume leadership roles in their communities. This entails keeping a constant watchful eye towards advancing the M.D.,C.M. program curriculum, and continuous fine tuning to ensure it remains in step with the health sciences environment (of the 21st century in Quebec, nationally, and globally, including rapid advances in scientific knowledge). The Faculty realizes the need for constant review of the medical curriculum that is also necessitated by accreditation standards and current literature resources that pertain to educational best practices.

The Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum Committee advises on the strategic directions of ongoing undergraduate medical education curricular renewal, encompassing all years within Undergraduate Medical Education. It oversees all aspects of the medical undergraduate curriculum and ensures that it conforms to the mission statement of the Faculty of Medicine, overall M.D.,C.M. program objectives, and the standards of relevant national organizations. It reviews curricular learning outcomes; teaching; assessment and evaluation strategies; and curricular outcomes. The committee also manages risks and assures that adequate resources—including faculty, faculty development, and evaluation—are available to fulfill the tasks set out in annual activity plans. The committee also develops and monitors policies that support the curricular framework, the hours of the school year, curricular content and workload, curricular review, and new learning within the curriculum. The curriculum consists of four components:

• Fundamentals of Medicine and Dentistry (FMD);
• Transition to Clinical Practice (TCP);
• Core and Senior Clerkship;
• Physicianship.

Longitudinal themes are woven through the four-year program components. Curriculum details are also available at www.mcgill.ca/ugme/curriculum.

There is wide student representation within all educational committees; whether at the Curriculum Committee or component, course, and discipline subcommittee levels.

The Evaluation System is multifaceted and under constant review by the Faculty. The Faculty reserves the right to change any of these rules and regulations at any time, although in general such changes will not come into effect in the middle of a Promotion Period. For complete Faculty regulations, reference should be made to the Faculty of Medicine's Undergraduate Medical Education Academic Policies.

The Faculty operates on a modified pass/fail system. This in effect means that students' standings, class rank, and grades in courses and rotations are not available to any external agency such as hospitals, universities or licensing bodies. For purposes of internal use students' numerical grades are used in the calculations required for student feedback, academic advising and promotion, awards, prizes, Dean's Honour List designation, academic bursaries and Faculty medals.

For the purposes of evaluation, the four-year curriculum is broken down into promotion periods. (Subject to change; see below.)

Due to curriculum changes, curriculum components and blocks may be revised. Revisions will be posted on the Undergraduate Medical Education website.