McGill University Faculty of Medicine

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.

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 13 research centres involved in studies on pain, neuroscience, and aging. Most of the faculty is housed in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, situated on the south side of Mount Royal between Pine Avenue and Dr. Penfield.

The McGill University Health Centre is affiliated with the faculty, and is comprised of five teaching hospitals &mdash; the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Neurological Hospital, and the Montreal Chest Institute. Three other health care facilities are affiliated with the faculty: Jewish General Hospital, Douglas Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital Centre. In April 2006 the Quebec government approved plans to commence the first phase of construction of the new McGill University Health Centre.

Education
The Faculty of Medicine offers a four-year medical degree M.D.,C.M. (Medicinae Doctor et Chirurgiae Magister) together with joint degree programs with other disciplines including business M.D./M.B.A. and science/engineering M.D./Ph.D.. There is also a special program for immediate graduates of the Quebec Collegial (CEGEP) system, that combines one year of science curriculum with the four-year medical program.

McGill offers an innovative program in distance learning, including a Masters Program in Occupational Health.

History
In 1821, the Montreal Medical Institution, which was established by four Edinburgh trained physicians working at the Montreal General Hospital, was incorporated into McGill College as the Faculty of Medicine and 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 ward" 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 William Osler helped to transform the Victorian era medical school into a leader in modern medical education.

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 in 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

 * David Hunter Hubel B.Sc 1947, M.D. 1951 &mdash; Nobel laureate in Physiology (1981)
 * Andrew Schally Ph. D 1957 &mdash; Nobel laureate in Physiology (1977)
 * Charles R. Drew M.D. 1933 &mdash; physician and professor
 * Ronald Melzack (medicine) Ph. D 1954 &mdash; developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
 * Colin MacLeod M.D. 1932 &mdash; Canadian-American geneticist, discovered DNA breakthroughs
 * Joseph B. Martin &mdash; Dean of the Harvard Medical School, former chair of neurology and neurosurgery
 * William Osler (medicine) M.D. 1872 &mdash; professor, medical pioneer, developed beside teaching, one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Johns Hopkins University
 * Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) &mdash; neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital
 * Judah Hirsch Quastel (biochemistry) &mdash; pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
 * Brenda Milner Ph. D 1952 &mdash; neuropsychologist
 * Arthur Vineberg B.Sc 1928, Ph. D 1933 &mdash; cardiac surgeon, pioneer of revascularization
 * Rocke Robertson B.Sc 1932, M.D. 1936 &mdash; physician
 * Jonathan Meakins B.Sc 1962 &mdash; surgeon, immunologist
 * Thomas George Roddick M.D. 1868 &mdash; surgeon

Affiliated teaching hospitals

 * McGill University Health Centre
 * Montreal General Hospital
 * Royal Victoria Hospital
 * Montreal Children's Hospital
 * Montreal Neurological Hospital
 * Jewish General Hospital
 * Douglas Hospital
 * St. Mary's Hospital Centre