The Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) program at York University is a three-year, competency-based Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree designed to educate clinical and person-centered physicians. The program’s mission is to deliver community-based primary and generalist care grounded in social accountability, interprofessional collaboration, and immersive learning. It is specifically designed to produce Family Physicians and highly needed generalist specialists—including those in pediatrics, general internal medicine, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery—to serve diverse populations, particularly in the North Toronto, York Region, South Simcoe, and North Simcoe/Muskoka regions.

Structured around experiential and case-based learning, the curriculum consists of three longitudinal courses that run concurrently across all years: Generalist Health Care, Emerging Concepts and Innovations in Health, and Becoming a Professional. A key feature of the program is the Longitudinal Integrated Clinical Learning Experience (LICLE) in Year 2, which replaces traditional clerkship rotations with urban or rural streams that immerse learners in primary and generalist specialty care to foster continuity in patient interactions. Throughout the program, learners engage with core themes of Foundational Sciences; Health Services and Systems; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Practices; and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being and Doing.