About Us
Achievements

Accomplishments and Distinctions

• Affiliated with more than 111 teaching sites, including nine teaching hospitals, throughout the Maritime provinces;
  
  
• Established the first Continuing Medical Education program in Canada, in the 1940s;
• One of the first medical schools in Canada to offer distributed learning for Postgraduate Medical Education;
• World-renowned Medical Humanities Program, including music-in-medicine and artist-in-residence;
• Emphasis on Bioethics and Health Law throughout curriculum;
• Internationally-recognized faculty in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education;
• Established Canada's first Master's program in Medical Informatics;

• Dalhousie clinical faculty were involved in the world' s first robotic brain telesurgery, which was performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick;

• Breakthrough discovery by Dalhousie clinical researchers changed prevailing theory about chronic rejection of heart transplants;

• Established the first province-wide endeavour in Canada aimed at making major changes in the approach to heart disease (ICONS - Improved Cardiovascular Outcomes in Nova Scotia);

• For two years running (2002-03 and 2003-04) Dalhousie medical researchers were awarded coveted Peter Lougheed/Canadian Institutes for Health Research Awards, the top award given by the Canadian Institute for Health Research to new Canadian investigators;

• Only medical school in Canada served by an independent charitable organization, Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, whose only purpose is to support research activities at the Faculty of Medicine;

• Established MegaSearch^TM , an award-winning and unique educational program that teaches children about health research taking place locally;