School year for U of T and Queens

[Tina_HP]

Hi. I was wondering when does a school year start and when does it end for U of Toronto and Queens? Does it start in September and end in June? Any specific dates? Do these dates change from year1 to year 2, year3 and year 4?

[Microbiodude]

Here's some sessional info for Queen's:

 

http://meds.queensu.ca/undergraduate/current_students/sessional_dates/sessional_dates_2009_-_2010

 

and here's U of T:

 

http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/programs/md/curriculum/schedule.htm

 

Browse through their websites for more information.

[Tina_HP]

So according to schedules above, in year 1 and 2 you get the summers off from end of May to September. Am I right?

 

In year 3 and 4 (clerkship) you don't get the summers off. You only get 2 weeks vacation off. Am I right?

[Microbiodude]

I'd say more all of June, July August. Summer starts at the end of May and then school starts in the beginning of Sep. Additionally, speaking to a U of T student apparently there's family med week in the summer so you're summer seems to get taken out a bit at U of T. Not sure if there's something similar at Queen's...though I'm sure if you asked for an observership opportunity you would get that chance over the summer as well.

[Tina_HP]

What's an observership opportunity?

 

 

I'd say more all of June, July August. Summer starts at the end of May and then school starts in the beginning of Sep. Additionally, speaking to a U of T student apparently there's family med week in the summer so you're summer seems to get taken out a bit at U of T. Not sure if there's something similar at Queen's...though I'm sure if you asked for an observership opportunity you would get that chance over the summer as well.