Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland is one of two medical schools located in Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and Newfoundland and Labrador...

 and one of seventeen in Canada
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Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Established in 1967 by Dr. Ian Rusted, the school has 150 graduate students enrolled in programs such as:
  • MD-PhD degree
  • Diploma in Community Health
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Post-Secondary Studies (Health Professional Education)


The faculty is supported by area hospitals:
  • Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s
  • Janeway Children’s Hospital
  • H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre, the Telemedicine Centre
  • Centre for Offshore and Remote Medicine (MEDICOR)


Other faculties and labs with links to medicine include:
  • Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy
  • Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratories
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