Elective Wiki

Hello and welcome to the Student Affairs Committee’s Clinical Electives Guide, 2010 Edition. In the following pages, you’ll find a centralized information database collected to help make electives as stress free and productive as possible.

From the electives office of all English speaking Canadian medical schools, here you’ll be able to find information about each school’s fees, immunization requirements, deadlines and more. We’ve done our best to ensure that all the information is up-to-date, but to be sure about the schools you’re serious about, make sure to also check their elective office websites which we’ve also provided links to.

In addition to each school’s official elective procedures, in this section we’ve also included some tips and timely advice from Western students with first hand experience. You’ll find information on how procedures differ from Western, how to ask for reference letters, on accommodations, travel and more. If you find something they’ve missed, make sure to use the wiki feature of this guide by creating a user name yourself (see the top of this page) and adding your opinion. By taking advantage of this feature, we can ensure that this guide stays up-to-date and serves Western students to its fullest capacity.

New for 2010, this section lists the elective experiences most recommended by the previous 4th years. They are grouped according to overall specialty category. The comments are entirely personal views, and results may vary.

A short list of some accomodations recommened by previous 4th years to use on your away electives, and a link to the UWOmeds.com housing forum.

Make sure to also take a look here where you’ll find handy lists to help you plan and prepare for your electives. You’ll find a complete immunization checklist, so that if you have this information, your documentation will be ready for any school’s requirements. You’ll also find a ‘To Take With You on Electives for CaRMS’ checklist, in case you’re not in London for some of the application milestones.

Don't make this the bane of your electives experience. Do it once, do it right. A compiled list of immunization requirements so you shouldn't have trouble at any school.

A special THANK YOU to all members of Meds2010 for their contributions to improve the guide this year. If you have any questions regarding content, please direct them to vvelker2010@meds.uwo.ca or melia2010@meds.uwo.ca.

Enjoy!

SAC

• Vikram Velker

• Mario Elia

• Reta French

• Marian Neelamkavil

We'd like to acknowledge the following individuals for their contributions to this project in years past

• Danyaal Raza (Meds2009)
  

• Elizabeth Zed (Meds2009)

• Meds2008
  

• Meds2009

• Alex Duong

• Ruwan Amaratunga
  

• Leena Amin
  

• Allison Bahm
  

• Andrew Burke
  

• Matt Chamberlain
  

• Erin Chapman
  

• King Chow
  

• Reta French
  

• Luke Harris
  

• Kaarlo Hinkkala
  

• Clarissa Holding
  

• George Jacob
  

• Daniela Lanc
  

• Olga Li
  

• Ann Marie McKenna
  

• Rick Mann
  

• Kathryn Martin
  

• Sarah Mansoub
  

• Aaron Mocon
  

• Bart Mysliwiec
  

• Cara Ooi
  

• James Owen
  

• Norreen Popat
  

• Dan Purcell
  

• Taryn Taylor
  

• Ian Turkstra
  

• Vik Velker
  

• Ricardo Viana
  

• Joanna Zurawska
  

• Alysia Zhou