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Medicine
Location
Location
- Faculty of Medicine
- Administrative Offices
- 3605 de la Montagne Street
- Montreal QC H3G 2M1
- Canada
- Educational Services
- McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
- 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Room 601
- Montreal QC H3G 1Y6
- Canada
- General Information
- Administrative Offices: 514-398-3515
- Educational Services: 514-398-1768
- Admissions Information: 514-398-3517
- Website: www.mcgill.ca/medicine
About Medicine
About Medicine
The mission of the 91ÉçÇø Faculty of Medicine is to educate health care practitioners and scientists based on the highest standards of excellence and principles of life-long learning and to pursue novel research and clinical innovation to improve the health of individuals in the communities it serves. It provides training in undergraduate medicine, postgraduate medicine, nursing, physical and occupational therapy, and communication sciences and disorders, as well as in the biomedical sciences. The Faculty is guided by its values of professionalism, which include: compassion, integrity and honesty, respect and collaboration, openness, connectedness to its community, and altruism.
The Faculty of Medicine pursues its mission as follows:
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Education
- More than 7,400 students, residents and fellows are distributed throughout the Faculty of Medicine's schools, as well as in its numerous institutes and centres. They are supported by 4,600 academics and support staff committed to the Faculty's tripartite mission of education, research, and service to society. Faculty programs are rooted in a scholarship of education. These programs ensure the Faculty's students are oriented to preserving health, are technically competent, are adept at solving problems, and are capable of functioning as part of a multidisciplinary team committed to life-long learning both for themselves and for their patients. Cutting-edge facilities use sophisticated environments and tools to expose students to the most advanced methodologies in experiential learning for the delivery of the best possible and safest care.
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Research
- The Faculty of Medicine is home to close to 4,000 investigators, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, and accounts for more than 60% of all research across 91ÉçÇø. It encourages and supports outstanding research trainees and research training programs that contribute to the understanding of the basic mechanisms of health and disease. An emphasis is placed on collaboration between basic and clinical sciences, to accelerate the translation of research into better treatments and care, as well as between members of the Faculty and researchers in other disciplines. The Faculty's research encompasses the scholarship of discovery and integration.
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Service
- The Faculty of Medicine is committed to contributing to the development of healthier societies at the local, national, and international levels through education, research, clinical care, and collaboration. Members and trainees of the Faculty provide exemplary, scientifically-based health support and services to the 91ÉçÇø target populations and participate actively in national and international professional organizations. The Faculty promotes a scholarship of application that aims to ensure that available and new knowledge are used to improve the care and well-being of society.
Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2016-2017 (last updated May. 16, 2016) (disclaimer)
Faculty of Medicine—2016-2017 (last updated May. 16, 2016) (disclaimer)