Joyce Pickering

Joyce Pickering, MDCM, MSc, is a General Internist, an Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, and an Associate Member of the Institute of Health Sciences Education. She has a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill (1988) and has taught clinical epidemiology to medical students and residents both in Canada and abroad. She has been involved in medical education for 30 years, at both the postgraduate and undergraduate levels, including the positions of Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education at McGill from 2004 to 2011 and Associate Chair for Education of the Department of Medicine from 2011 to 2020. She is the Director of the Medical Clinical Teaching Units at the Royal Victoria Hospital site of the McGill University Health Centre.

She has been involved in a number of international projects, including training of Masters of Public Health students and Infectious Disease Fellows at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and faculty development at Gifu University, Japan. She practices and teaches clinically in both General Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine.

She sits on the McGill Faculty of Medicine MDCM Accreditation committee and is member of the internal medicine examination board for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.