McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé de l'Université McGill  (French)
TypePublic
Established1829 (1829)
DeanDavid Eidelman
Students688 MDCM, 35 MD-PhD, 10 MD-MBA
Location
Canada Montreal
,
Quebec
,
Canada
CampusUrban
LanguageEnglish
Websitehttps://www.mcgill.ca/medhealthsci/

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the college's first faculty; 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]

McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the most well-regarded medical schools in the world. Many researchers, physicians, clinicians, and pioneers within their respective fields have graduated from or have been affiliated with the faculty. Its graduates have gone on to found the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. There have been at least two Nobel Prize laureates who have completed their entire education at McGill University including MD at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences including Andrew Schally (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977) and David H. Hubel (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981).

History

McGill's medical building 1872-1906

The Montreal Medical Institution, was established in 1823 by four physicians, Andrew Fernando Holmes, John Stephenson, William Caldwell and William Robertson, all of whom had been trained at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and were involved in the foundation of the Montreal General Hospital.[3] 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. From 1833 to 1877 the Faculty followed the pattern set by the University of Edinburgh and required graduating students to submit an 'inaugural dissertation' - a database of these is available.[4]

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.

In 1905, the Bishop's University Medical Faculty Montreal who established in Montreal in 1871 closed and amalgamated with McGill University to create the new McGill University Faculty of Medicine, where BU graduates such as Maude Abbott, one of the Canada's earliest female medical graduates transferred to work for McGill as the Curator of the McGill Medical Museum.

The McGill University Health Centre was part of a $2.355 billion Redevelopment Project on three sites - the Glen, the Montreal General and Lachine hospitals.[5] A new $1.300 billion MUHC Glen site fully integrated super-hospital complex opened in 2015.[6]

A new satellite campus for McGill Medicine for a French stream MD, CM program was established in 2020 for the Outaouais region with a graduating class size of 24 and total of 96 in the program. The establishment of the program is part of a $32.5-million construction project of the Groupe de médecine familiale universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau.[7]

In September 2020, the Faculty of Medicine changed its name to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to reflect the growth of interprofessionalism and the diversity in the Faculty of Medicine.[8]

McIntyre Medical Building in the heart of McGill's downtown campus

Education

The faculty offers a four-year MDCM degree in medicine and surgery. The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 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 college system (PRE-MED-ADM or MED-P) that combines one year of science curriculum with the four-year M.D., C.M. degrees.

It is closely affiliated with the McGill University Faculty of Dentistry. Students of dentistry receive instruction together with their medical student colleagues for the first 18 months of their professional training.[9]

The faculty includes six schools: the School of Medicine, the Ingram School of Nursing, the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the School of Population & Global Health and the School of Biomedical Sciences. 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 McIntyre Medical Sciences Building ("The Beer Can", “McMed”), situated on McGill's downtown campus on the south side of Mount Royal between Avenue des Pins and Avenue Docteur-Penfield.[10]

Admissions to the M.D., C.M. program are highly competitive with an acceptance rate of 6.4% for the Class of 2023.[11]

The McGill University Faculty of Medicine was the first medical school in Canada to institute a joint MD-MBA program in 1997 in collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management.[12] This program allowed students to complete both degrees in five years.[12]

Affiliations

McGill University Health Centre's super hospital complex at the Glen Site opened in 2015

McGill University Health Centre

  • GLEN super hospital[13]
    • Royal Victoria Hospital
    • Montreal Children's Hospital
    • Montreal Chest Institute
  • Montreal General Hospital
    • Allan Memorial Institute (contains MGH's outpatient psychiatry)
  • Montreal Neurological Hospital
  • Hôpital de Lachine

McGill affiliate hospitals

  • Lakeshore General Hospital
  • Jewish General Hospital
  • St. Mary's Hospital
  • Douglas Mental Health University Institute
  • Shriners Hospital for Children
  • Hôpital de Gatineau - Groupe de médecine de famille universitaire (GMF-U) de Gatineau
  • Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (JRH)

Reputation

McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has a national and international reputation with a list of faculty and alumni, many of whom were pioneers in their respective fields. It is also ranked as the number 1 medical school nationally in Canada by Maclean's for 17 straight years (including the most recent ranking for 2022).[14] McGill's Medical School has also consistently ranked in the top medical schools worldwide and ranked 21st worldwide on a recent QS World University Ranking of top medical schools world-wide.[15] Particularly, among McGill University's renowned reputation of Rhodes Scholars, McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has also produced a number of Rhodes Scholars including one in the recent 2018 cohort.[16] For medical school students entering in Fall 2020, the mean four-year undergraduate GPA was 3.87 (excluding graduate GPA), and the mean MCAT score was 32.1 (85th-88th percentile).[17][18][19] The Department of Anatomy and Physiology at McGill University ranked 3rd globally in the 2017 QS World University Rankings after Oxford University and Cambridge.[20]

Harry Houdini incident

In October 1926, renowned magician Harry Houdini was giving a lecture on exposed mediums and spiritualists at McGill University and had invited medical students to his dressing room at Montreal's Princess Theatre. J. Gordon Whitehead, a medical student and boxer, had asked Houdini if he could take a sudden punch to the stomach, as had rumoured to be the case; Houdini received several unexpected punches.[21] Feeling ill later that evening and after refusing medical treatment, Houdini was diagnosed with acute appendicitis a couple of days later and died on October 31, 1926. It remains a controversy whether Houdini died as a result of the punches or was simply unaware of a current appendicitis prior, and Whitehead was never charged.[22]

Notable faculty and alumni

  • Bernard Nathanson M.D., C.M. 1949 — renowned obstetrician/gynecologist
  • Victor Dzau M.D., C.M. 1972 — president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, former president and CEO of Duke University Medical Center
  • Daniel Borsuk O.Q., B.Sc. 2000, M.D., C.M. 2006, M.B.A. 2006 — performed first face transplant in Canada
  • Thomas Chang O.C., M.D., C.M., Ph.D., FRCP(C), FRS(C) — pioneer in biomedical engineering, “Father of Artificial Cells”
  • Robert Thirsk O.C., O.B.C., M.D., C.M., M.S., M.B.A. — Canadian engineer and physician, astronaut, and chancellor emeritus University of Calgary.
  • Joannie Rochette M.D., C.M. 2020 — medal-winning Olympic figure skater
  • E. Fuller Torrey M.D., C.M. 1963 — renowned psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher
  • Charles Philippe Leblond — pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research
  • Maurice Brodie M.D., C.M. 1928 — polio researcher
  • Jack Wright M.D., C.M. 1928, — internationally top-ranked tennis star, winner of three Canadian Open men's singles titles and four doubles titles
  • Mark Cohen M.D., C.M. 1992 — ophthalmologist, laser eye surgeon and co-founder of LASIK MD
  • Avi Wallerstein — ophthalmologist, laser eye surgeon and co-founder of LASIK MD
  • Charles Scriver M.D., C.M. 1955 — eminent Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist
  • Dafydd Williams O.C., O.Ont., M.D., C.M. 1983, M.S., M.B.A. — a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and multi-mission astronaut.
  • David R. Boyd M.D., C.M. 1963, — trauma surgeon, and developer of Regional Trauma Emergency Medical Services (EMS).[23]
  • Charles R. Drew M.D., C.M. 1933 — father of modern blood-banking; namesake of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; founding medical director of the Red Cross Blood Bank in the United States[24]
  • Richard Goldbloom O.C., O.N.S., M.D., C.M. 1949 — pediatrician, chancellor of Dalhousie University 1986-2004
  • Paul Bruce Beeson M.D., C.M. 1933 — professor of medicine, specializing in infectious diseases; discoverer of interleukin-1
  • Ian Stevenson M.D., C.M. 1943 — Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist
  • Laurent Duvernay-Tardif M.D., C.M. 2018 — offensive guard for the NFL's New York Jets
  • Phil Gold, B.Sc. 1957, M.Sc. 1961, M.D., C.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1965 — physician, scientist, and professor, discoverer of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), the first biomarker for cancer
  • Haile Debas M.D., C.M. 1963 — Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 1993 to 2003
  • Phil Edwards, M.D., C.M. 1936 — "Man of Bronze", Canada's most-decorated Olympian for many years, and renowned expert in tropical diseases
  • David Goltzman, B.Sc. 1966, M.D., C.M. 1968 — physician, scientist, and professor
  • Noni MacDonald, renowned pediatric infectious diseases expert, former Dean of Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine 1999-2003 and first woman in Canada to be named Dean of a medical school.
  • Vivek Goel, M.D., C.M. 1984 — president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo
  • Katherine O'Brien, M.D., C.M. 1988 — infectious disease expert; Director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
  • Frederick Lowy, M.D., C.M. 1959 — former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University
  • Andrew Fernando Holmes — first dean and co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty
  • David Hunter Hubel B.Sc. 1947, M.D., C.M. 1951 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1981)
  • Joanne Liu M.D., C.M. — International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
  • Colin MacLeod M.D., C.M. 1932 — Canadian-American geneticist, identified DNA as hereditary material in the body, Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment
  • Joseph B. Martin — Dean of the Harvard Medical School, former chair of neurology and neurosurgery
  • Jonathan Meakins B.Sc. 1962 — surgeon, immunologist
  • Ronald Melzack Ph.D. 1954 — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
  • Jack Wennberg M.D., C.M. 1961 — renowned pioneer in public health of medicine and founder of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice[25][26]
  • Jonathan Campbell Meakins — Physician and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1941–1948, first President and Founder of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
  • Brenda Milner Ph.D. 1952 — renowned neuropsychologist, "founder of neuropsychology"
  • Eric Berne BSc 1931, M.D., C.M. 1935 — renowned psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis
  • William Reginald Morse M.D., C.M. 1902 — one four founders of the West China Union University in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1914; went on to become dean of the medical faculty
  • Robert Murray - B.A., M.A., M.D., C.M. 1943 - Bacteriologist[27]
  • Clarke Fraser Ph.D. 1945, M.D., C.M. 1950 — pioneer in medical genetics
  • Perry Rosenthal M.D., C.M. 1958 — professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and developer of the first gas-permeable scleral contact lens
  • William Feindel — distinguished neurosurgeon and neuroscientist
  • Cara Tannenbaum M.D., C.M. 1994 — geriatric medicine physician and researcher
  • T. Wesley Mills M.D., C.M. 1878 — physician, Canada's first professional physiologist
  • Mark Wainberg O.C., O.Q., B.Sc. 1966 — renowned HIV/AIDS researcher, discoverer of lamivudine, Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre,
  • Santa J. Ono Ph.D. 1991 — immunologist and eye researcher, President & Vice-Chancellor University of British Columbia
  • William Osler M.D., C.M. 1872 — professor, medical pioneer, developed bedside teaching, one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Wilder Penfield — neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital
  • Betty Price M.D., C.M. 1980 — anesthesiologist and American politician/member of the Georgia House of Representatives[28]
  • Juda Hirsch Quastel — pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
  • Edward Llewellyn-Thomas M.D., C.M. 1955 — English scientist, university professor and science fiction author
  • Rocke Robertson B.Sc. 1932, M.D., C.M. 1936 — physician
  • Harold Griffith M.D., C.M. 1922 — renowned anaesthesiologist, pioneered the use of curare as a muscle relaxant, formed and was first President of World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
  • Alice Benjamin Res. OB/GYN 1978 — renowned maternal-fetal medicine specialist and pioneer in the field; performed Canada's first successful diabetic renal transplant and pregnancy
  • James Horace King M.D., C.M. 1895 — physician, Canadian senator, and governor and one of the leaders of the establishment of the American College of Surgeons
  • Arnold Aberman O.C. B.Sc. 1965, M.D., C.M. 1967 — Dean of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine 1992–1999, and instrumental founder/consulting dean of Northern Ontario School of Medicine
  • Victor Goldbloom O.Q., O.C., M.D., C.M. 1945 — pediatrician, prominent politician
  • Franklin White M.D., C.M. 1969 — prominent public health scientist
  • George Genereux M.D., C.M. 1960 — diagnostic radiologist and Olympic gold medalist and inductee in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
  • Peter Macklem O.C., M.D., C.M. 1956 — renowned cardio-pulmonary physician and researcher, founding director of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories
  • Richard Margolese O.C., M.D., C.M. — prominent surgeon, researcher and pioneer in treatment of breast cancers
  • Cluny Macpherson M.D., C.M. 1901 — physician and inventor of the British Smoke Hood (an early gas mask)
  • Thomas George Roddick M.D., C.M. 1868 — surgeon, politician and founder of the Medical Council of Canada
  • Andrew Schally Ph.D. 1957 — Nobel laureate in Physiology (1977)
  • John Stephenson — co-founder of McGill College Medical Faculty
  • Arthur Vineberg B.Sc. 1928, Ph.D. 1933 — cardiac surgeon, pioneer of revascularization
  • Sir Charles-Eugène-Napoléon Boucher de Boucherville M.D., C.M. 1843, Physician, politician, two-time Premier of Quebec
  • R. Tait McKenzie M.D., C.M. 1892 — pioneer of modern physiotherapy
  • C. Miller Fisher described lacunar strokes and identified transient ischemic attacks as stroke precursors.
  • Edward William Archibald M.D., C.M. 1896 Canada's first neurosurgeon, renowned thoracic surgical pioneer
  • Casey Albert Wood ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist
  • Maude Abbott of Canada's earliest female medical graduates, international expert on congenital heart disease, namesake of Maude Abbott Medical Museum

See also

References

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  2. ↑ 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]
  3. ↑ "John Stephenson's Secret". McGill. McGill University. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  4. ↑ MD and MDCM graduates and their theses 1833-1877
  5. ↑ "Former SNC-Lavalin VP pleads guilty in MUHC corruption trial - CBC News". CBC. 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
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  7. ↑ "Campus Outaouais takes shape : Health e-News".
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  10. ↑ "McIntyre Medical Sciences Building & Osler Library". cac.mcgill.ca.
  11. ↑ "Fall 2019". Enrolment Services.
  12. 1 2 "McGill launches first combined MD–MBA program". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 156 (11): 1612. June 1997.
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  14. ↑ "McGill best university in Canada: Maclean's Magazine University named top medical-doctoral institution for 17th straight year". Retrieved Oct 7, 2021.
  15. ↑ "QS World University Rankings - Medicine". QS World University Rankings. 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  16. ↑ "McGill announces its 2018 Rhodes Scholars". Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Admissions - by the numbers". McGill University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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  25. ↑ "Jack Wennberg, MD, MPH - Bio". The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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  28. ↑ "Betty Price To Run For State House Seat". Roswell, GA Patch. May 20, 2015.

Further reading

  • Medical Library Archives Collection, Osler Library Archives, McGill University. Collection of primary sources documenting the growth of the Medical Library at McGill University. Also includes announcements, university calendars, and directories related to the Faculty of Medicine

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