cumming school of medicine cumming school of medicine the university of calgary faculty of medicine was established in 1967 and renamed the cumming school of medicine in 2014. it is one of two medical schools in alberta and one of 17 in canada. the faculty and medical school is linked to the hospitals in alberta health services such as foothills medical centre, alberta children's hospital, rockyview general hospital and chinook regional hospital. trainees in faculty of medicine include 486 medical students (ume), 767 residents (pgme), 190 post doctoral fellows (pdf) and 491 graduate students. it is one of two 3 year medical schools, along with mcmaster university medical school, in canada. in addition, the university of calgary cumming school of medicine offers an undergraduate bachelor of health sciences degree and a bachelor of community rehabilitation and disability studies degree. cumming school of medicinetypemedical schoolestablished1967 (1967)deandr. jon meddings, md, frcpclocationcalgary, alberta, canada51°03′57″n 114°08′04″waffiliationsuniversity of calgarywebsitemedicine.ucalgary.ca program offerings doctor of medicine (md) leaders in medicine (joint md/graduate degree program) bachelor of health sciences (bhsc) bachelor of community rehabilitation and disability studies (bcr) neurological sciences and mental health cardiovascular and respiratory sciences pathology immunology community health sciences gastrointestinal sciences medical sciences graduate division of education microbiology and infectious diseases doctor of medicine program the doctor of medicine program was founded in 1970. it is one of two fully accredited medical schools in canada that offers a three-year doctor of medicine program. the program is structured so that the pre-clerkship curriculum is taught year-round, without an extended summer break (as is common in 4-year md programs). this structure allows the pre-clerkship portion of undergraduate medical education to be shortened in length, without limiting the breadth of medical knowledge required for students to be competent before entering the clerkship phase of the curriculum. menagerie the medical school has a history of having the second-year medical students give an animal name to the first-year students, effectively welcoming them into the uofc menagerie. an incomplete list of classes includes: 1973: guinea pigs 1975: turkeys 1976: beavers 1977: toads 1978: minks 1981: lampreys 1984: emus 1985: wombats 1987: slugs 1988: poodles 1989: flamingos 1990: pandas 1992: dikdiks 1996: sifakas 2000: dugongs 2001: bonobos 2002: pangolins 2003: geoducks 2004: taphozous 2005: candirus 2009: macaques 2010: glabers 2011: kākāpōs 2012: blobfish 2013: aye-ayes 2014: hellbenders 2015: cows 2016: narwhals 2017: humuhumunukunukuapua'a (briefly roosters) 2018: goats 2019: dholes 2020: boops boops 2021: limpkins 2022: tanukis 2023: echidnas 2024: bilbies 2025: spiny lumpsuckers institutes health innovation research centre thematic institutes were formed between faculty of medicine and the calgary health region that support and fulfill the vision and mission of these two entities. philosophically, institutes encompass activities in all three areas of education, research and care delivery. currently there are seven institutes identified as follows: mccaig institute for bone and joint health hotchkiss brain institute calvin, phoebe and joan snyder institute of infection, immunity & inflammation alberta children's hospital research institute for child and maternal health (achri) libin cardiovascular institute of alberta arnie charbonneau cancer institute o'brien institute for public health faculty of medicine departments anaesthesia biochemistry and molecular biology cardiac sciences cell biology and anatomy clinical neurosciences community health sciences critical care medicine family medicine medicine medical genetics microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases obstetrics and gynaecology oncology paediatrics pathology and laboratory medicine physiology and pharmacology psychiatry radiology surgery location the faculty is located on the foothills campus of the university of calgary in the health sciences centre. this facility is annexed to foothills medical centre.