Dalhousie University offers PhD in Medicine, a doctorate in Medicine programme in Halifax, Canada. The programme runs for 4 years, delivered on campus. Tuition is CAD 25,568 per year for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Doctorate
Field:Medicine
Duration: 4 years
Delivery: On Campus
Local tuition: CAD 25,568 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Dalhousie's Doctor of Medicine (MD) program is an entry-level medical degree delivered in person across four years, structured into two preclinical years — referred to as Med 1 and Med 2 — followed by a two-year clerkship. The early years build foundational knowledge of human anatomy and body systems alongside integrated ethics instruction, while case-based and hands-on learning begin immediately, with first-year students meeting patients in their first week through structured clinical exposure. The clerkship years place students in clinical rotations across hospitals and clinics of varying size throughout the Maritimes, giving them experience with a range of medical specialties and settings. The program is delivered across three campus sites — Halifax, Saint John in New Brunswick, and Sydney in Cape Breton — reflecting its regional, distributed clinical training model. The program suits students seeking broad, early, and continuous patient contact as part of their medical training, with exposure to both large urban hospitals and smaller community clinics. Detailed admission requirements and the application process are handled through the university's separate undergraduate medicine admissions channels.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The MD program pages do not enumerate an admission GPA, prerequisite course list, or MCAT score cut-off; those specifics sit behind Dalhousie Medicine's separate admissions and application-process pages, which were not themselves retrievable in full detail. What the site does state: only Canadian citizens or Canadian permanent residents may apply, since international applicants are not eligible; the MCAT is a required test, with score expectations tied to GPA, and the 2026/2027-cycle MCAT deadline is August 8, 2026; from the 2025/2026 cycle onward, out-of-province seats at the Halifax site are limited to the Indigenous Learners and Black Learners admission pathways; and applicants must arrange verifiers for supplemental (non-academic) activities, with verification occurring November through February. No English-language test requirement is published, consistent with a domestic-only applicant pool. First-year study begins in August.
Application Details
Start Date:August
Application Deadline:Dalhousie's live Dates and Deadlines page still shows the September 2026 entry cycle as of mid-September 2026, not the 2027 cycle. For that cycle, Bachelor of Science (Nursing), Bachelor of Health Sciences, Bachelor of Science (Medical Sciences) and Bachelor of Social Work close February 15, 2026; the Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies (Architecture) closes March 1, 2026; and the Health Sciences post-diploma option closes June 15, 2026. All other undergraduate programmes are considered on a rolling, space-available basis for both domestic and international applicants, with no separate international closing date published; May 15, 2026 is only the deposit and English-proficiency deadline, not an application deadline. Dalhousie has not yet published September 2027 entry dates. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
