Kingston Campus
This is what a typical week looks like for the first-year medicine class in Kingston. For your reference, we have provided examples of a typical week in QMed.
The exact schedule of classes varies from week to week in order to accommodate the schedules of lecturers, as most of them are physicians with cross-appointments with Queen's Health Sciences. The average time commitment for classes each day remains relatively consistent. We generally have classes from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM with an hour off for lunch from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM. Lunch is a great time to relax and hang out with classmates, and it is also when tons of interest groups host talks and workshops. We have two half days off per week, which alternate times, but often fall on Friday afternoons or another day of the week.
Throughout the week, we engage in a variety of different learning styles, including lectures, case-based discussions in small group learning sessions, peer-led labs, and physician-facilitated small group teaching sessions. Queen's is very special in that we start our clinical skills early from the very first week! Clinical skills is a favourite and involves working with standardized and volunteer patients under the supervision of physicians, in our very first week. The teaching ratio is two physicians from any specialty to 6 medical students, swapping for 2 new tutors each term. This way, students are exposed to various learning styles and allowed to work with physicians with a diverse range of perspectives.
MD Program School Year (Kingston Campus)
Lakeridge Campus
This is what a typical week looks like for the the first-year medical students at Lakeridge. As this is a new program, the faculty, program director and curricular coordinators are regularly gathering feedback from the inaugural class, so it is possible that the "typical week" may look different for the next cohort. Usually, there's a mix of in-person classes and on-line classes ("DIL"s). The exact schedule of classes varies week to week in order to accommodate the schedules of lecturers, but the time commitment for classes each day remains relatively consistent. We generally have in-person classes on Mondays and Fridays anywhere between 8:30AM-5:30PM, with an hour off for lunch from 12:30PM-1:30PM. We have no scheduled instruction on Tuesday afternoons and Thursday mornings, so most students schedule their family medicine clinical placements, which started in September, during these times. Throughout the week, we engage in various learning styles including lectures, small group case-based discussions, physician-facilitated teaching sessions, and working with standardized patients under the supervision of physicians in our clinical skills class.
MD-FM Program School Year (Lakeridge Campus)
