Recruitment & Admissions

The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry has a national recruitment policy. Students and graduates come from across Canada. They represent Abenaki, Blackfoot, Cree, Dene, Delaware, Inuit, Iroquois, Métis, Micmac, Maliseet, Mohawk, Ojibwa, Odawa and Saulteaux Nations.

Indigenous MD, DDS, DH, MLS & RT students and graduates travel across Canada with an administrator to inform other Indigenous youth about the University of Alberta and the WIHP program. They appear at national and regional career fairs, workshops, schools, universities, conferences, etc.

Recruitment posters featuring Indigenous students are produced and distributed to schools, organizations and interested individuals across Canada.