Ontario Medical School Application Service (OMSAS) step-by-step guide by a. Or been required to withdraw from or been denied re-admission to a university? Any university to the OMSAS GPA without the need for any confusing charts.
How to apply
Review our three admissions categories.
Application materials check-list
Undergraduate | Graduate | Current md student | |
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MD application materials | MD admissions | MD admissions | Not required |
Three MD/PhD reference letters | Uploaded or mailed to OMSAS | Uploaded or mailed to OMSAS | Delivered to MD/PhD Office |
Academic CV | Uploaded to OMSAS | Uploaded to OMSAS | Delivered to MD/PhD Office |
MD/PhD personal essay | Completed on OMSAS | Completed on OMSAS | Delivered to MD/PhD Office with Current MD Student MDPhD Application_2019.pdfCurrent MD Student MDPhD Application_2019.pdf(166.7 KB) |
TOTAL COMBINED # OF REFERENCE LETTERS SUBMITTED WITH MD AND MD/PHD APPLICATION | 3 references and 3 letters | 3 references and 3 letters | 3 letters |
MD/PhD personal essay
You are required to submit one original personal essay that is 250 words or less, responding to the following question:
Reflecting on your personal and research experiences to date, how does your experience relate to your decision to pursue a physician scientist pathway, and the kind of ideas that you wish to pursue in your PhD?
MD/PhD reference letters
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You are required to submit three letters of reference. These are separate from the letters of reference used for your MD application, and should reflect the following guidelines:
Purpose: these letters are in addition to the letters that are part of the standard OMSAS MD application in order to help the admissions committee assess your research performance and suitability for an MD/PhD Program. The MD/PhD admissions committee does not review your MD letters.
Referees: at least two of the reference letters should be from individuals, preferably at the faculty level, who can comment on your scientific ability and potential. If you are a graduate applicant, one of these three letters must be from your graduate supervisor. You can use the same referees for your MD Confidential Assessment forms and reference letters, your MD/PhD reference letters, and your graduate reference letters (if applicable), but the content of these letters should differ according to the parameters listed in this section.
Content: there is no template or form provided for reference letters. Letters should be written on the referee’s letterhead and include the name of the candidate. Your referees should comment on the following candidate attributes, with specific examples, when composing their letters:
- potential for success as a clinician scientist
- capacity to succeed in both an undergraduate medical and a PhD curriculum
- self-starting behaviour
- contribution to the research in which the candidate was involved, including publications, if any
- capacity to learn from others
Submission: MD/PhD reference letters are now submitted on-line through OMSAS.
Academic curriculum vitae (CV)
CVs must follow the following format:
ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE 2019.06.21.pdf
ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE 2019.06.21.pdf(395.15 KB)
They should not include non-academic activities.Interviewing
The interview stage is the final stage of the admissions process. We invite approximately 45 applicants to attend an admissions interview in Toronto. You will be invited for your MD interview and MD/PhD interview in the same invitation. All MD/PhD Program interviews will be coordinated on the same weekend as the applicant’s MD interview. Typically, this happens on the first and second interview weekends.
The 2020 interview dates will be announced as soon as possible. Invitations will be sent by the end of January 2020.
The MD/PhD Program has the same interview format as the MD Program.
How we assess applications
Applicants to the MD/PhD Program are reviewed by the Admissions Committee for the combined program, and by the Enrolment Services Office for the MD Program. While there is separate adjudication by each program, there is close coordination and sharing of information between the two offices.
Applications are reviewed by members of the MD/PhD Admissions Committee by early January, and highly ranked candidates are invited to interview. Typically, our interviews take place in the first two weekends of the MD interviews. MD interviews are normally arranged to coincide with this visit. Interview dates will be posted on the MD page.
A student must be acceptable to both the medical school and MD/PhD Program in order to receive an offer of admission to the MD/PhD Program.
Offers of admission are made on a rolling basis following completion of the interviews. All MD/PhD Programs in Ontario have agreed that they may not require a response to an offer prior to [DATE TO BE DETERMINED].
Notes:
- This chart is used for converting individual grades only.
- The scales are applicable only to current grading schemes.
- Refer to the Institution Scale Chart to see which scale applies to each university.
The GPA is only 1 of the several factors that are considered in evaluating your admissibility to medical school. Check the relevant information for each medical school.
Conversion Table
Type | Numeric | Percentage | Alpha | ||||||
Scale | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
OMSAS value | |||||||||
4.00 | 9 | 8 | 90–100 | 93–100 | 94–100 | 94–100 | A+ | A | A+ |
3.90 | 85–89 | 84–92 | 87–93 | 85–93 | A | ||||
3.80 | A | ||||||||
3.70 | 8 | 7 | 80–84 | 75–83 | 80–86 | 80–84 | A- | A- | |
3.30 | 7 | 6 | 77–79 | 72–74 | 75–79 | 75–79 | B+ | B+ | B+ |
3.00 | 73–76 | 69–71 | 70–74 | 70–74 | B | B | B | ||
2.70 | 6 | 5 | 70–72 | 66–68 | 65–69 | 65–69 | B- | B- | |
2.30 | 5 | 4 | 67–69 | 64–65 | 60–64 | 60–64 | C+ | C+ | C+ |
2.00 | 63–66 | 62–63 | 55–59 | 55–59 | C | C | C | ||
1.70 | 4 | 3 | 60–62 | 60–61 | 50–54 | C- | C- | ||
1.30 | 2 | 57–59 | 56–59 | D+ | D+ | D+ | |||
1.00 | 53–56 | 53–55 | 50–54 | D | D | D | |||
0.70 | 50–52 | 50–52 | D- | D- | |||||
0.00 | 3 | 1 | ≤ 49 | ≤ 49 | ≤ 49 | ≤ 49 | E/F | E/F | E/F |
Institution Scale Chart
Acadia | 7 | Memorial | 6 | Sherbrooke | 7 |
Alberta | 7 | Moncton | 7 | Simon Fraser | 7 |
Algoma | 3 | Montreal | 7 | St. Francis Xavier | 3 |
Athabasca | 7 | Mt. Allison | 7 | St. Mary’s | 7 |
Bishop’s | 3 | Mt. Royal | 7 | St. Thomas | 7 |
Brandon | 7 | Mt. St. Vincent | 7 | Ste-Anne | 7 |
Brock | 3 | New Brunswick | 7 | Thompson Rivers | 7 |
Calgary | 7 | Nipissing | 3 | Toronto | 3,7 |
Cape Breton | 3 | OCAD | 3 | Trent | 3 |
Carleton | 7 | Ontario Tech | 7 | Trinity Western | 7 |
Concordia | 7 | Ottawa | 7 | UBC | 7 |
Dalhousie | 3,7 | Prince Edward Island | 3 | UNBC | 7 |
Guelph | 3 | Quebec | 7 | Victoria | 3,7 |
Lakehead | 3 | Queen’s | 3,7 | Waterloo | 3,7 |
Laurentian | 7 | Quest | 8 | Western | 3 |
Laval | 7 | Regina | 3 | Wilfrid Laurier | 7 |
Lethbridge | 7 | RMC | 4,7 | Windsor | 3,7 |
Manitoba | 9 | Royal Roads | 7 | Winnipeg | 7 |
McGill | 8 | Ryerson | 7 | York | 9 |
McMaster | 7 | Saskatchewan | 3 |