For over thirty years, McGill, the CISSS de l’Outaouais and the regional autorities that preceded the CISSS have collaborated to strengthen the healthcare network in the Outaouais region. Medical students and resident physicians who have the opportunity to complete their studies and residency in the region are more likely to form lasting connections and choose to settle long-term.
At a glance:
- 1988: McGill and the region’s health authority (today the CISSS de l’Outaouais) start training McGill residents.
- 1988: The Gatineau Family Medicine Unit, now a University Family Medicine Group, opens.
- 2003: The Ministry of Health and Social Services establishes the réseaux universitaires intégrés de santé (RUIS) which further strengthens McGill’s ties to the region. The mandate of the McGill RUIS is to help facilitate access to health care, teaching and research in designated areas of Quebec. The McGill RUIS includes the Outaouais region, as well as several others regions from the Montérégie to Nunavik.
- 2010: McGill medical students start doing clerkships in the Outaouais region.
- 2020: Opening of the Campus Outaouais, allowing students to complete McGill’s four-year undergraduate medical education program (MDCM), as well as their residency, in French, in Outaouais.
- 2024: Graduation of the first cohort from Campus Outaouais
Teaching and residency training in Outaouais now includes various specialties (family medicine, surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, geriatrics, dermatology, cardiology, nephrology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, vascular surgery and emergency medicine).
Convocation of the first graduating cohort of the Outaouais Campus