National Ranking & Outcome Measures

Measures of Performance/Outcomes

At the University of Calgary several outcome measures are collected and reviewed annually as part our quality assurance program.

1. Satisfaction/Quality of Medical Education

Each year the graduating students complete the Canadian Graduate Questionnaire which provides results at both the individual school and national levels. This allows one to examine how University of Calgary students respond in relation to their peers at medical school across Canada. These data provided by the graduating Class of 2010 reveal that nearly all of the students who completed their medical training at the University of Calgary rated the experience highly, as did their peers who were training elsewhere across Canada.



2. Medical Council of Canada Licensing Examination

Each year the graduating class also writes the Medical Council of Canada Part 1 Licensing Examination before beginning residency. The results for the class of 2010 are depicted below. The overall pass rate of the 2010 class was identical (98%) to the pass rate of all Canadian medical school graduates who wrote the exam for the first time.



3. Success in the Residency Match

In the final year of medical school students compete with graduates of other medical schools across Canada for residency positions. The results of the 2010 match of Canadian graduates show that nearly 90% of U of C students who were matched in the first iteration were successful in matching to their first choice discipline.



4. Career Choice of Graduates

136 U of C graduates in the 2010 match (1st & 2nd iteration) were successful in securing residency positions in 20 different specialty training programs. The most popular residency disciplines were Family Medicine (43), Internal Medicine (22), and Psychiatry (17).



5. Performance in Residency

The University of Calgary monitors the residency performance of our graduates. We ask directors of residency programs where our graduates are training to complete a brief assessment of the graduates’ performance at the end of year 1 (PGY1). Depicted below are the results for the Class of 2009. Slightly more than half (52%) of the graduates were rated by program directors as “stronger than most” residents typically in their program.



6. Alumni Satisfaction

Our most recent alumni survey was conducted in 2005 that included graduates from the Classes of 1992 – 2002 inclusive. Alumni provide a unique perspective on medical education as they can offer an opinion as to how well their medical education prepared them for actual practice. Over 95% of the graduates indicated they were either “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the quality of medical education received at the University of Calgary medical school.