University of Ottawa
How uOttawa picks
Ottawa has the most prerequisites of the seven schools and a strong regional focus. Its GPA uses only your three most recent full-time years, it requires six prerequisite subjects at B or better, and reserves about 70% of seats for applicants who went to high school in Ottawa and the surrounding region. It runs separate English and French streams, and you cannot switch between them.
From applications to seats
Who gets an interview
A rank list built from GPA, the Early-phase MMIA recorded video interview done online in the fall, soon after you apply. You answer short scenarios on camera on the Acuity Insights platform. Several Ontario schools developed it together. uOttawa and Queen’s require it for entry in 2027. and the Autobiographical sketchYour list of activities, jobs, awards and volunteering since age 16, submitted with your application. Each entry names someone who can confirm it. Schools read it to see how you spend your time.. The weights are kept private.
The interview
About 40 minutes with a panel of two committee members and a fourth-year medical student. Virtual for 2027.
Who gets an offer
Ranked mainly on interview performance.
Step by step
- Meet the minimums. GPA 3.50, the six prerequisites, full-time study and the Early-phase MMIA recorded video interview done online in the fall, soon after you apply. You answer short scenarios on camera on the Acuity Insights platform. Several Ontario schools developed it together. uOttawa and Queen’s require it for entry in 2027..
- Interview invitation. Rank list on GPA, Early-phase MMIA recorded video interview done online in the fall, soon after you apply. You answer short scenarios on camera on the Acuity Insights platform. Several Ontario schools developed it together. uOttawa and Queen’s require it for entry in 2027. and Autobiographical sketchYour list of activities, jobs, awards and volunteering since age 16, submitted with your application. Each entry names someone who can confirm it. Schools read it to see how you spend your time..
- Interview. About 40 minutes, virtual, with a three-person panel.
- Offer. Ranked mainly on the interview.
Grades and tests
Your three most recent full-time undergraduate years only, with at least four graded courses per term. Graduate courses and exchange terms abroad are excluded.
| GPA minimum | 3.502026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027uOttawa, application process |
|---|---|
| Admitted average | GPA 3.93 averageEntered fall 2025AFMC, Admission Requirements of Canadian Faculties of Medicine, admission in 2027 |
| MCAT | Not required2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027uOttawa, application process |
| Situational test | Early-phase MMI, multiple mini interviewA circuit of short, timed interview stations. Each station has a different scenario or question and a different interviewer, so no single conversation decides your score. Schools use it to judge communication, ethics and judgement, not science knowledge.; no CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it.2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027Recorded video answers on the Acuity Insights platform, in your stream’s language. uOttawa, application process |
| Prerequisites | 6 subjects at B or better2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027Biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, statistics, and humanities or social sciences. Labs on site. uOttawa, application process |
| Degree | Three full-time years of bachelor’s study, with everything complete by June 30 of the entry year. |
Do you meet uOttawa’s requirements?
Is uOttawa a fit?Our reading of the school’s published rules. Not a prediction of your chances.
May suit you if
- You went to high school in Ottawa or the surrounding region.
- You want to study medicine in French.
- Your three most recent full-time years are your strongest.
- You already know you want family medicine.
Think carefully if
- Six prerequisite subjects, each at B or better, with labs completed on site.
- A year with fewer than four courses per term does not count as full-time, and neither does full-time online study.
- After three completed Ottawa interviews, you can no longer apply.
- You pick your language stream when you apply and cannot change it.
Pathways
About 70% of seats go to regional applicants, based on your home postal code while you attended high school in Ottawa or the surrounding areas. At least 95% of admissions go to Ontario residents.
- French stream, with 8 seats reserved for French speakers from provinces other than Ontario and Quebec
- MD/Family Medicine: up to 8 seats, 4 per stream, with a residency path outside the CaRMSThe Canadian Resident Matching Service, which matches medical school graduates to residency programs across Canada. match if benchmarks are met
- Indigenous Program: up to 7 seats
- Black Student Application Program: no quota
- Social Accountability Initiative: 2 seats for applicants from lower-income families
- MD/PhD, MD/Master’s, Government of Nunavut and Canadian Armed Forces pathways
- The faculty calls itself Canada’s only bilingual medical school.Read the school’s page
- Its first medicine courses, in 1945, were taught in unused army barracks.Read the school’s page