AUA/KMCIC meets the Medical Council of Canada's educational standard for non-Canadian medical schools: WHO and/or IMED listing.

What the process is of actually returning to Canada after attending AUA/KMCIC and getting an MD...you would be well served to look at the Clinical/Residency forums here to see how Canadians pass MCC Qualifying Exams 1 & 2 along with USMLE Steps 1 & 2. And of course look at MCC's website just to get a little bit of knowledge of how Canadians come back to practice after seeking education in non-Canadian schools. Also might be useful to look at various provincial websites because some offer programs to encourage non-Canadian educated doctors to come and practice.

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Mr. Tipton B. Carlson
Associate Director of Admissions
AUA / KMCIC

Thanks.

I am a little confused about KMCIC's IMED listing though. Pls click on the link below:
IMED - FAIMER International Medical Education Directory - Search Results

It will take you to the IMED web site listing for AUA, which is fine.



Then if you click the this link below it takes you to the KMC listing on IMED:
IMED - FAIMER International Medical Education Directory - Search Results


So where is KMCIC's listing, that one needs for Canada?
Its clear that if one goes go to KMC or AUA, she can practice, at least theoreticaly in Canada.
But is there any information on KMCIC's IMED listing that one requires for Canada?

I understand that going to KMCIC, one gets a diploma from AUA, but would the Canadian Medical Board object to this arrangement? Specifically if one went to school in India, but got her diploma from a Carribean school?

KMCIC students become AUA students when they come to the US for '5th Semester' through graduation. We treat it similar to a transfer...but without another acceptance procedure or anything like that.

I can see how the IMED listing is a little confusing. The easiest way to think of it is KMCIC is simply a branch campus of AUA (which it is) in Manipal, India.

As to MCC's 'acceptance' of this arrangement...I have no background/experience to have an opinion. MCC lists their criteria of accepting non-Canadian medical school education on their website. The only other way to judge that I can think of would be to find someone who has actually applied for licensure in Canada as an IMG and see what their process was like.

BTW - this discussion might be more useful over the phone: 866-562-7708. Feel free to post the results of our conversation here if you like.

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Mr. Tipton B. Carlson
Associate Director of Admissions
AUA / KMCIC

I am from Canada and I have applied to KMCIC and I had a few questions
1. Is there discrimination between boys and girls?
2. I believe the boys dorm has no curfew but the girls have to be back by 12?
3. Is the teaching/studying much different from how it is in Canada/USA?
4. Are there any feminist clubs/organizations on the campus?
5. What is the semester system? Does it go from July to Jan and then Jan to May?
6. Does anyone know the status on the CA liscensure?
7. Is it difficult to adjust when you go there, due to language/culture stuff?
Thanks

Not sure what you mean by discrimination between boys and girls.

All students have curfews in Manipal Univ Hostels.

Since KMCIC faculty come from KMC and other Indian universities I would expect their instruction to be quite different from US/Canadian professors. In particular thier expectations for student behavior: no nonsense.

KMCIC Semesters run mid-Jan through mid-June and mid-July through mid-December.

There are many student organizations in Manipal: sports, cultural, social, political...etc. Not sure if any of them would be feminist.

AUA/KMCIC has submitted the "Self-Assessment Report" to the CA Medical Board. Now we're simply waiting to hear back from them what they require next.

I'll leave it to students to clarify how they found adjusting to Manipal. But I haven't heard any complaints.

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Mr. Tipton B. Carlson
Associate Director of Admissions
AUA / KMCIC

Is AUA's Twinning Program WHO accredited?

Also,
Has the first class graduating from India given their USMLE Step 1 yet? And if they have, what were their results?
Thanks

I'm in the same boat as you. Also, I would like to know what is the student/teacher ration. Lastly, does anyone have pictures of how the "dorms" look like? That would be very appreciated. Thank you all so much for your generous support.

Accredited is the wrong word. You mean listed in WHO's World Directory of Medical Schools. Listed. Yes. There's no such thing as WHO accreditation.

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Mr. Tipton B. Carlson
Associate Director of Admissions
AUA / KMCIC

Manipal University's hostels are very nice. Some of our current KMCIC students have placed hostel pictures in Facebook. Just search for KMCIC.

Student teacher ratio? Not sure exactly. I'd say we're still at about 10:1.

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Mr. Tipton B. Carlson
Associate Director of Admissions
AUA / KMCIC