- McGill University Faculty of Medicine
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McGill University Faculty of Medicine Established 1829 Type Public Students 688 MD, 35 MD-PhD, 30 MD-MBA Location 
Montreal, Quebec, CanadaCampus Urban Interim Dean Samuel Benaroya Website [1] The Faculty of Medicine is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1823 as the Montreal Medical Institution, and became the first faculty of McGill College in 1829; it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada.[1]. The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833.[2]
The faculty includes three schools, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Nursing, and the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. It also includes several research centres involved in studies on, for example, pain, neuroscience, and aging. Most of the non-clinical parts of the faculty are housed in the [2] McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, situated on McGill's downtown campus on the south side of Mount Royal between Avenue des Pins and Avenue Docteur-Penfield.
The McGill University Health Centre is affiliated with the faculty, and is composed of five teaching hospitals — the Royal Victoria Hospital which incorporates the Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Neurological Hospital. Three other major health care facilities are also affiliated with the faculty: Jewish General Hospital, Douglas Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital. In April 2006, the Quebec government approved plans to commence the first phase of construction of the new, redeveloped McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).[3]
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Education
McGill University Faculty of Medicine is the only medical school in Canada to award four-year medical M.D., C.M. degrees (abbreviated MDCM). MDCM is from the Latin "Medicinae Doctor et Chirurgiae Magister" meaning "Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery". The Faculty of Medicine also offers joint degree programs with other disciplines including business M.D.-M.B.A. and science/engineering M.D.-Ph.D.. There is also an accelerated program for selected graduates of the Quebec junior college (CEGEP) system (PRE-MED-ADM or MED-P) that combines one year of science curriculum with the four-year M.D., C.M. degrees.
Admissions to McGill Medicine is very competitive. For medical school students entering in 2010, the mean undergraduate GPA is 3.80, and the mean MCAT score is 32.1 (88th percentile).[4][5]
History
The Montreal Medical Institution, was established in 1823 by four physicians, two of whom who had been trained at Edinburgh University, and who all worked at the Montreal General Hospital. In 1829 it was incorporated into McGill College as the new College's first faculty; it thus became the first Faculty of Medicine in Canada. A highly didactic approach to medical education called the "Edinburgh curriculum", which consisted of two six-month courses of basic science lectures and two years of "walking the wards" at The Montreal General Hospital, was instituted.
Sir William Dawson, the principal of McGill, was instrumental in garnering resources for the faculty and pioneering contributions from Thomas Roddick, Francis Shepherd, George Ross and Sir William Osler helped to transform the Victorian era medical school into a leader in modern medical education. Osler graduated from the MDCM program at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1872, and co-founded the present-day Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1893.
Departments and Centres
Basic Sciences
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Biochemistry
- Biomedical Engineering
- Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Occupational Health
- Human Genetics
- Microbiology & Immunology
- Pathology
- Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Physiology
- Social Studies of Medicine
Clinical
- Anesthesia
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Occupational Health
- Family Medicine
- Human Genetics
- Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- McGill Reproductive Centre
- Gynecological Oncology Unit
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Otolaryngology
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
Centres
- Bone and Periodontal Research
- Aging
- A.I.D.S.
- Anesthesia Research Unit
- Artificial Cells & Organs Research
- Bioinformatics
- Biomedical Ethics Unit
- Cancer
- Host Resistance
- Language, Mind and Brain
- Medical Education
- Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine
- Nutrition and Food Science
- Pain
- Research in Neuroscience
- Translational Research in Cancer
Notable Faculty and Alumni
Donald Ballew
- Charles R. Drew M.D.C.M. 1933 — physician and professor
- Andrew Fernando Holmes — first dean of McGill College Medical Faculty
- David Hunter Hubel B.Sc 1947, M.D.C.M. 1951 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1981)
- Colin MacLeod M.D.C.M. 1932 — Canadian-American geneticist, discovered DNA breakthroughs
- Joseph B. Martin — Dean of the Harvard Medical School, former chair of neurology and neurosurgery
- Jonathan Meakins B.Sc 1962 — surgeon, immunologist
- Ronald Melzack (medicine) Ph.D 1954 — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
- Brenda Milner Ph. D 1952 — neuropsychologist
- William Osler (medicine) M.D.C.M. 1872 — professor, medical pioneer, developed bedside teaching, one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Johns Hopkins University
- Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) — neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital
- Juda Hirsch Quastel (biochemistry) — pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
- Andrew Schally Ph. D 1957 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1977)
- Rocke Robertson B.Sc 1932, M.D.C.M. 1936 — physician
- Thomas George Roddick M.D.C.M. 1868 — surgeon
- Arthur Vineberg B.Sc 1928, Ph. D 1933 — cardiac surgeon, pioneer of revascularization
Samuel Ugoji== See also ==
- Osler Library of the History of Medicine
- McGill University
- McGill Journal of Medicine
- McGill University Life Sciences Research Complex
External links
- Faculty of Medicine
- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- School of Nursing
- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
Affiliated teaching hospitals
References
- ^ "Health", "McGill University". Accessed May 24, 2008
- ^ Crawford, DS. Montreal, medicine and William Leslie Logie: McGill's first graduate and Canada's first medical graduate. 175th. anniversary. [Osler Library Newsletter, No. 109, 2]http://www.mcgill.ca/files/library/No1092008.pdf
- ^ "The MUHC redevelopment project", "McGill University Health Centre", 2008. Accessed May 17, 2008.
- ^ http://www.mcgill.ca/medadmissions/why-mcgill-medicine/class-profile
- ^ http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/admissionsadvisors/examstatistics/scaledscores/combined09.pdf
- Joseph Hanaway and Richard Cruess. "McGill Medicine, Volume 1, 1829-1885. The First Half Century".
- Joseph Hanaway, Richard Cruess, and James Darragh. "McGill Medicine, Volume II, 1885-1936".
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