French requirement

[Guest biomedeng]

Hello,

 

I heard that you dont have to speak French in order to study medicine at McGill, or to do a residency in Montreal. However I heard that to practice medicine in Quebec you must be fully fluent in French.

 

Can somebody please comment on their experience.

 

Thanks

[Guest medicator007]

You do not need to be able to speak french in order to study medicine at McGill or do your residency here. HOWEVER, Montreal is a truly billingual city and you will have patients that speak French all throughout your training so it would be a MAJOR asset to be comfortable with french during medical school and especially residency!

 

As for the requirement in order to practice in Quebec, this is true. All physicians must pass a french exam (written, oral, listening, reading) in order to get a permit to practice medicine in the province unless you have a french as a first language certificate from High School. Apparantly though the test is not all the difficult, my supervisor this past summer was from Ontario and he was able to pass with a little review of the material he learned in High School.

 

Cheers,

Medicator

[Guest Ian Wong]

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Ian