Canadian med schools modifying admissions process: The medical school admissions landscape in Canada has changed in recently years, largely due to efforts to undertake a more evidence-based approach to selecting students and measures designed to increase the socioeconomic diversity of incoming classes. The push for diversity has spurred UBC’s med school to reach out to students from less affluent backgrounds and from small and rural communities. McGill has dropped the MCAT requirement for Canadian applications because a French-language version is not available. Other med schools have altered other aspects of the traditional admissions approach. McMaster has no requirement for prerequisite courses and looks only at undergraduate marks and scores on the verbal reasoning component of the MCAT. Those applying to uSask have the option to submit their MCAT or prerequisite scores only, or both sets of scores.
http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/20oct10-the-changing-dynamic-of-medical-school-admissions.dtl