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Under this plan, the college overhauled its curriculum, increased funding for research, changed payment structures in order to attract more medical doctors to teach at the college and revamped its leadership team.

The college launched its new curriculum in 2014; the first cohort of students to complete their four-year undergraduate medical doctorate degrees under this program wrote their licensing exams this spring.

Once the college gets feedback on how its students did, Smith said he will need to provide the CACMS with a written report — one of a handful of reports it will need to provide the accreditors to give them information that wasn’t available at the time of the fall visit.

Smith said the CACMS is not as concerned about how Saskatchewan medical schools stack up against their counterparts at other schools, but rather wants to know whether the college has plans in place to change the curriculum to address areas in which students may be weak.

Smith said the college is committed to continually updating its curriculum to best serve its students and is making sure its faculty get professional development opportunities to see how medical education is delivered at other institutions.

“There were structural reasons that got us into the trouble we were in with accreditation, but there was also many years of just continuing with the old education program and things were getting stagnant,” he said.

“Well, things will get stagnant again unless we’re actually taking those faculty and getting them exposed to everything that’s happening in medical education, so trying to be really forward thinking on the medical education side.”