At Wilfrid Laurier University, you can add a direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor to your degree when you apply through the Ontario Universities Application Centre (OUAC) and begin preparing for a career in healthcare — from your first year.
Available at our Waterloo campus, the direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor allows you to begin building knowledge in health and medical sciences from your first year, alongside your major.
At Laurier, you’ll gain early exposure to healthcare education and begin preparing for a future in medicine or related fields. You’ll have access to medical school partnerships with St. George’s University (SGU) School of Medicine and the American University of the Caribbean (AUC) School of Medicine, with opportunities to study in locations across the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.
With a direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor, you can:
With a direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor, you’ll:
Laurier’s direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor can be paired with one of the following undergraduate programs:
Laurier’s direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor prepares you for a clinical career in Canada. Laurier students can apply to med school with a competitive edge and gain preferential status with internationally accredited medical schools.
Potential career pathways could include:
Note, most career paths require additional education and qualifications, such as medical school.
With direct entry, a Medical Foundations Partnership Minor is designed to fit seamlessly into your university experience:
With a direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership minor, you can enhance and customize your degree without changing your primary program.
The direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor may be the right fit for you if:
Whether you’re just starting to explore the idea of medical schools, or you’ve already decided on medicine as your future career goals, this minor will give you a strong foundation to build from.
A direct-entry minor can only be combined with specific degrees available at specific campuses.
In most cases, you will graduate at the same time as you would without a minor—a direct-entry minor is designed to fit within your existing degree.
You can apply to a program that includes the direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor as part of your undergraduate application.
You can find the eligibility requirements for this minor by reviewing the admission requirements on the program pages for Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Chemistry and Honours Science. These are the three programs the minor is paired with.
The direct-entry Medical Foundation Partnership Minor can help you prepare for a career in healthcare, including meeting many of the requirements for applying to medical school. While the minor doesn’t replace professional medical education, it can be an important first step toward pursuing your goal of a career in healthcare.
No, a direct-entry Medical Foundations Partnership Minor does guarantee admission to medical school—admissions requirements must still be met. However, Laurier’s partnerships do provide a competitive edge in the admissions process.
Visit your program page of interest to learn more about all the ways you can customize your degree – from minors, specializations to pathways to other schools.
We’d love to connect with you. Email chooselaurier@wlu.ca for questions about your program options.
