Memorial University Faculty of Medicine Learners
About Us
Welcome to the website for the University of Prince Edward Island’s Faculty of Medicine and Interprofessional Health Education Facility.
This future-facing facility will serve as the home of Memorial University’s regional campus for the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program in Prince Edward Island. The Prince Edward Island site will operate as a regional campus of Memorial until a future joint degree is eventually established. The inaugural class of Memorial learners in Prince Edward Island (PEI) started in August 2025.
In addition to housing Memorial medical learners, the facility is also home to an expanded UPEI Doctor of Psychology program, a provincial Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) clinic, a Health PEI Patient Medical Home (PMH), and a provincial Clinical Learning and Simulation Center (CLSC) which serves medical students, nursing students, allied health students and others within the campus community. The CLSC also serves the broader healthcare, first responder, and military communities.
Regional Campus
Memorial’s regional campus in PEI will deliver Memorial’s well-established MD curriculum and align with Memorial’s policies to fully comply with the accreditation standards from the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CaCMS).
CaCMS accreditation is a requirement for all Canadian medical schools, ensuring each has adequate resources, policies, and procedures, as well as effective curriculum management, student support, and services.
Students who complete their MD degree at Memorial’s regional campus on PEI will receive a Memorial University MD Degree.
Joint Program
The long-term goal is to develop a medical school at UPEI that is “made in PEI for all of PEI”, featuring a “unique-in-Canada” joint Doctor of Medicine degree with Memorial University to meet the needs of Islanders from tip to tip, the first of its kind in Canada.
The development of a joint MD program will require considerable preparation and necessitate review and approval from the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and regulatory agencies, including the Atlantic Advisory Committee on Health Human Resources (AACHHR) and the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission (MPHEC).
