Scheduling your Evaluating Examination date and centre

Prometric – the MCC’s service provider for scheduling and administering the MCCEE
Examination dates and centres
How to schedule your examination appointment
Changing or cancelling a scheduled examination appointment
Withdrawing your MCCEE application
Absence on the day of your scheduled examination appointment
MCCEE candidates intending to apply for the MCCQE Part I

Prometric – the MCC’s service provider for scheduling and administering the MCCEE

Once your application to take the MCCEE has been accepted, you will be required to schedule your examination appointment (i.e. your examination date, time and centre) through Prometric, the service provider that the MCC has contracted for scheduling and administering the computer-based MCCEE. If you need to change your examination appointment after having scheduled it, you will also be required to do this through Prometric. Instructions for scheduling, rescheduling and cancelling an examination appointment, as well as Prometric’s contact information, are all provided below.

The MCC’s collaboration with Prometric allows us to offer our candidates increased accessibility to the examination: up to two-to-three-week testing windows per year, with more than 500 examination centres in 80 countries throughout the world.

Examination dates and centres

  • The MCCEE is offered up to five times per year in January, March, May, September and November, during two- to three-week testing windows.
  • Although there are more than 500 Prometric test sites in approximately 80 countries, seats will not necessarily be available in all test sites and/or all countries on all published MCCEE examination dates.
  • When scheduling your appointment through Prometric, you will be asked to select the country in which you would like to take the examination. You will then be provided with the cities in which Prometric operates test site(s) in your chosen country, and then with the available MCCEE sittings (i.e., dates and times) for that test site. If there are no sittings for that test site, or if you do not like the available sittings for that test site, you can go back and select another test site and/or another country, or wait until additional examination sessions and dates become available before scheduling.
  • Scheduling is on a first-come, first-served space availability basis. Seating is limited in all test sites.

How to schedule your examination appointment

  • Once your application to take the MCCEE is deemed complete and is accepted, you will receive an email message from the MCC confirming that you are eligible to sit the MCCEE. This email message will provide you with Prometric’s website address and your Authorization to Test (ATT) Number.
  • Your Authorization to Test (ATT) Number is required to schedule your examination appointment (i.e., date, time and centre) through Prometric.
  • You must schedule your examination appointment directly through Prometric, either online or by telephone. You are encouraged to schedule your examination sitting online, through the Prometric website.
  • At the time of first scheduling your examination appointment, space permitting, you can schedule online or by telephone, up to 120 hours (i.e., up to five days) before the examination sitting date and time. After the 120-hour deadline has passed, the examination date and time are no longer available for scheduling.
  • Once the scheduling of your examination appointment is completed, Prometric will provide you with a 16-digit Confirmation Number that you should note and conserve. If you schedule your appointment online, the Confirmation Number will be provided to you on-screen as well as by email. If you schedule by telephone, you will be provided with the Confirmation Number at that time and will also receive an email confirming your appointment.
  • Should you later need to reschedule or cancel your examination appointment, or to view the details of your examination appointment on the Prometric website, you will need to provide your Confirmation Number in order to have access to rescheduling, cancelling or viewing your examination appointment.

Changing or cancelling a scheduled examination appointment

  • You can change (“reschedule”) or cancel a scheduled examination appointment, without penalty, up to 30 days before the date and time of the scheduled examination appointment.
  • If necessary, and for a fee of $50 US paid to Prometric, you may still reschedule or cancel a scheduled examination appointment after the 30-day deadline and up to 120 hours (i.e., up to five days) before the date and time of the scheduled examination appointment.
  • You can reschedule your appointment if you choose to take the examination at another time and if scheduling has been opened for the session dates you would prefer. You can cancel your appointment if you have decided to take the examination at another time and wish to schedule a new date later or if the examination session date on which you would like to take the examination has not yet been opened for scheduling.
  • You must reschedule or cancel your examination appointment directly through Prometric, either online or by telephone. You will be required to provide the 16-digit Confirmation Number you obtained at the time of first scheduling your examination appointment.
  • To reschedule or cancel your examination appointment online, click on the “Schedule, Reschedule, Cancel or Confirm an Exam” button on the Prometric website (see link above), and you will be guided through the steps for rescheduling or cancelling your examination appointment.
  • If you wish to reschedule or cancel your appointment by telephone, see the above link for the telephone numbers.
  • You will not be permitted to change or cancel your scheduled examination appointment after the 120-hour deadline has passed. In this case, you would be required to take the examination on the date and time of your scheduled examination appointment or forfeit the full examination fee paid.
  • Click here for the MCC’s policy on cancelling your examination appointment less than 120 hours before the date and time of your scheduled appointment.

Withdrawing your MCCEE application

  • You would only request to withdraw your MCCEE application if you no longer wish to take the examination and wish to request a refund of your examination fee. If your request to withdraw is received up to 120 hours before the date and time of your scheduled examination appointment, a partial refund would be provided.
  • If you no longer wish to take the examination on your scheduled appointment date but still wish to take the examination at a later date, please see Changing or cancelling your scheduled examination appointment above.

Absence on the day of your scheduled examination appointment

  • If you are absent from the examination on the date and time of your scheduled appointment, you will forfeit the full examination fee paid.
  • Review the MCC’s policy regarding absence from the examination due to reasons beyond your control (e.g., severe illness, a death in the family).

MCCEE candidates intending to apply for the MCCQE Part I

  • If you wish to apply for the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I (MCCQE Part I) in the fall of a given year, you must take and pass the Medical Council of Canada Evaluating Examination (MCCEE) no later than the May session of that same year.
  • If you wish to apply for the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I (MCCQE Part I) in the spring of a given year, you must take and pass the Medical Council of Canada Evaluating Examination (MCCEE) no later than the November session of the previous year.