Second-year medical students (left to right) Marie-Ève Robinson, Marie-Eve Chartier and David-Martin Milot at the 2009 Dr. Joseph Wener Donning the Healer’s Habit Ceremony
Nicolas Morin

Recognized as one of the top medical schools in North America, McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine has a long tradition of excellence. Founded in 1829, it was McGill’s first faculty and the first medical faculty in Canada.

As Canada's leading medical research university, McGill has been at the helm of breakthroughs in areas such as as biomedical science, epigenetics, neuroscience and stem cells and regenerative medicine. Recent discoveries include the identification of genes that lead to breast cancer, memory loss, spina bifida and type-2 diabetes.

Paving the way toward innovative methods of health science education is also one of the University’s cornerstones. By pioneering a curriculum of physicianship, McGill promotes both the professionalism and healer aspects of the physician. Through the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, the Jewish General Hospital and the St. Mary's Hospital Center,students and faculty have direct access to patients and clinical situations. And with the creation of Global Health Programs McGill is identifying and promoting worldwide learning, research and clinical opportunities with the intent of improving the state of health and health care for all.

The Arnold and Blema Steinberg Medical Simulation Centre, the first fully integrated simulation centre in Canada, and the new McGill University Life Sciences Complex, housing one of Canada's largest concentration of biomedical and healthcare researchers, signal an exciting new age at the Faculty of Medicine, one where collaboration, great minds and technology provide fertile ground for the best and brightest doctors of tomorrow.