The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, known as the McMaster University School of Medicine prior to 2004,
[ is the ]medical school
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of McMaster University
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, Ontario
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, Canada. It is operated by the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences
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. It is one of two medical programs in Canada, along with the University of Calgary
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, that operates on an accelerated 3-year MD program, instead of the traditional 4-year MD program.
Currently, McMaster ranks 11th in the world and 2nd in Canada for medicine according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021. In 2012, McMaster ranked 14th in the world and 1st in Canada in medicine, according to the Times Higher Education Rankings.
The school received 5,605 applications for the Class of 2025, the most applications of any medical school in Canada, and had an acceptance rate of 3.6%. The average cumulative GPA of entering undergraduates in the Class of 2025 was 3.91 and the average MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS) score was 129, a score in the 95th percentile. Unlike many other medical schools, McMaster University's medical school does not drop any courses or years in their GPA calculation, as well as only uses the MCAT CARS score in the MCAT component of their admissions calculation. Students also have to write the CASPer
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admissions test, first developed by McMaster in 2010.
Since its formation in 1965, the school invented the small-group, case-based learning curriculum which is now known as PBL or problem-based learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a define ...
. In addition, the school was the first in the world to institute a 3-year M.D. program in 1969, with classes being held year round. In the 1980s, McMaster developed and coined the term "evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients". The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of t ...
" as a way to approach clinical problem solving. McMaster also developed the Multiple Mini Interview
In recruitment, the multiple mini-interview (MMI)Eva KW, Reiter HI, Rosenfeld J, Norman GR. An admissions OSCE: the multiple mini-interview. Medical education, 38:314–326 (2004). is an interview format that uses many short independent assessments ...
(MMI) system in 2001 for medical school admissions which has been adopted as part of the admissions system in professional schools around the world. In 2010, McMaster developed the CASPer
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test for medical school admissions, which has been adopted by over 70 medical, dental and nursing schools worldwide.
History
McMaster University had long been a target of proposals for a medical school. As early as 1892, Trinity Medical College in Toronto had sought affiliation with McMaster. In the 1930s, Dr. C.E. Cooper-Cole and Dr. Gordon Murray were invited to become the first professors of medicine and surgery at the university. However, the plans were later shelved. In 1956, Sir Francis R. Fraser, wrote the Fraser report and concluded that McMaster could feasibly host a medical school. At the same time, the Ontario government had expressed the opinion that Ontario would need an additional medical school by 1966. The main driving force behind the project was Harry Thode
Henry George Thode (September 10, 1910 – March 22, 1997) was a Canadian geochemist, nuclear chemist, and academic administrator. He was president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University from 1961 to 1972. Thode built a cycl ...
, at the time the vice president of the university and later, the president. By 1965, the first dean of the new medical school John Robert Evans
John Robert Evans (1 October 1929 – 13 February 2015) was a Canadian cardiologist, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.
He was the founding dean of the McMaster University Medical School and then vice-president of Health Services at M ...
, was appointed. By 1966, the first five faculty members, John Robert Evans
John Robert Evans (1 October 1929 – 13 February 2015) was a Canadian cardiologist, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.
He was the founding dean of the McMaster University Medical School and then vice-president of Health Services at M ...
, William Walsh, Bill Spaulding, James Anderson and Fraser Mustard were recruited. The school would welcome its first class in the fall of 1969, graduating its first students in May 1972.[
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Facilities and teaching sites
The school is located at McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...
's main campus in Hamilton, Ontario
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, housed within the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, a building built in 2004 and the adjacent Health Sciences Centre. The DeGroote facility is shared with the Centre for Function Genomics, Centre for Gene Therapeutics, Institute for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Research, Robert E. Fitzhenry Vector Laboratory, Centre for Asthma and Allergy Research (Allergen) and North American Headquarters for West Nile studies, as well as the Bachelor of Health Sciences undergraduate program.
In 2016, the medical school opened the David Braley Health Sciences Centre, a 192,000 square foot building, to be used by the Family Medicine department, Hamilton Public Health and other various academic divisions of the medical school.
The medical school currently operates three campuses: the main Hamilton campus; the Waterloo Regional Campus located on the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo
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in downtown Kitchener, Ontario
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; and the Niagara Regional Campus located on the main campus of Brock University
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in St. Catharines, Ontario. All three campuses offer the same curriculum and lead to the same degree, but differ in patient populations and teaching locations.
McMaster's teaching hospitals are divided into two major hospital groupings: Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS)is a hospital network of seven hospitals and a cancer centre serving Hamilton, Ontario
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, recently ranked 2nd in Canada among research hospitals and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
The school is also affiliated with the following Ontario hospitals, where students rotate and train during their clerkship:
* St. Mary's General Hospital
* Grand River Hospital
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* Joseph Brant Hospital
* Brantford General Hospital
* Cambridge Memorial Hospital
* West Lincoln Memorial Hospital
* Niagara Health System (Greater Niagara, Niagara-on-the Lake, Port Colborne Campuses)
* Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
The Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital is a full-service acute care community hospital located at 3001 Hospital Gate in Oakville, Ontario. It offers a comprehensive range of primary and secondary care services in addition to some tertiary servi ...
* Grey Bruce Health Services
Grey Bruce Health Services is a hospital network in Grey and Bruce counties in Ontario, Canada.
It operates six hospitals sites, including the 400-bed Owen Sound Regional Hospital. The other five hospitals are Lion's Head Hospital, Markdale Hos ...
* Norfolk General Hospital
Norfolk General Hospital is a general hospital in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; it is the only one in Norfolk County. The hospital was founded in 1925. It became an official teaching site for McMaster University's Faculty of Health Sciences in 2 ...
* Brampton Civic Hospital
* Markham Stouffville Hospital
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* Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital
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* Southlake Regional Health Centre
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Educational influence
The medical school is a pioneer in its teaching and admissions philosophies through the Program for Educational Research and Development. McMaster created a revolution in health care training by pioneering the problem-based learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a define ...
(PBL) curriculum, which has since influenced health care education worldwide. The instructional strategy focuses on student-driven learning, which occurs in groups. Most medical schools in North America have adopted PBL in varying degrees into their curriculum.
In the early 1990s, the School of Medicine developed the personal progress index (PPI) as an objective method for assessing acquisition and retention of knowledge for students in the medical program. The PPI is administered at routine intervals to all students in the program, regardless of their level of training, and plots students' increases in scores as they move through the program. Students typically score under 15% on their first write, and increase 5-7% with each successive write. Students are able to monitor the changes in their scores and receive formative feedback based on a standardized score relative to the class mean. Due to the overwhelming success and research supporting the use of the PPI as an evaluation tool, it is now used in Canada, US, Europe, and Australia.
In 2004, McMaster developed the multiple-mini interview to address long standing concerns over the standard panel interviews as being poor reflectors of performance in medical school. This format uses short, independent assessments in a timed circuit to obtain aggregate scores in interpersonal skills, professionalism, ethical/moral judgment, and critical thinking to assess candidates. The MMI has consistently shown to have a higher predictive validity for future performance than traditional interviews. By 2008, the MMI was being used as an admissions test for the majority of medical schools in Canada, Australia, and Israel, as well as other medical schools in the United States and Asia.
In 2010, McMaster began using a computer-based simulated test known as CASPer
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* Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque
* Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426
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as an admissions tool at the pre-interview stage. This is an assessment of interpersonal and decision-making skills that is more reliable, and predicts much more validity than standard autobiographical submissions. The test involves several video clips lasting 1–2 minutes in length, followed by situational challenges and self-descriptive questions that may or may not be related to the preceding video clip.
Admissions
The acceptance rate for McMaster University's medical school was 3.8% in 2017. The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine received over 5200 applications in 2014 for a class size of approximately 200 students. The average GPA of entering undergraduates in the Class of 2017 was 3.83 and the average MCAT verbal score was 11 (95th percentile).
Curriculum
The program is divided into two parts: the pre-clerkship curriculum and the clerkship curriculum, each spanning half of the three years. The pre-clerkship curriculum is divided into five medical foundations, where students meet with a faculty member twice a week in a small group setting for teaching. Learning is done using the problem-based learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a define ...
approach, where students set objectives, complete independent research, and then use their small group sessions to teach others, ask questions, and challenge one another with the guidance of their tutor. Students also complete clinical skills and professional competencies training at this time. Students are not graded during pre-clerkship. Evaluations are given at the end of each medical foundation. Feedback from the students' tutors is given on tests and the PPI (personal progress index test) provides the student with a sense of their progress during pre-clerkship.
The clerkship curriculum consists of a rotating schedule. Students move through various medical disciplines. These include: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anesthesia, and a number of elective blocks for specialties of interest to the individual student. In their third year, students apply to the Canadian Resident Matching Service
The Canadian Resident Matching Service, abbreviated and most often referred to as CaRMS, is a national organization that provides the mandatory matching service for medical residency training throughout Canada.
Residency matching
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(CaRMS) for residency training after completion of the MD Program.
Students are allowed to take an enrichment year that can last up to twelve months. Students can pursue academic work during that period, including research. In addition, up to 40% of the time is available for clinical electives. Students can also pursue a master's degree at McMaster or other universities during that period.
98% of McMaster graduates matched to a residency position in the first iteration of the match in 2016.
International health electives
McMaster students have 24 weeks of elective time to pursue at McMaster or elsewhere. McMaster encourages students to participate in electives abroad. Students routinely travel all over the world including to countries like South Africa
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, Uganda
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, UK, Germany, United States, China, India, Japan and South Korea
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. Most electives are organized through external organizations or through the students own arrangements, however, McMaster has agreements with different medical universities/cities for medical electives abroad. Currently, McMaster has arranged bilateral exchange agreements with the following universities and cities:
*Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
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- 8 spots
*University of Limerick
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- 2 spots
*University of Sydney
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- 4 spots
*King George's Medical University
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/ Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical & Health Sciences - 4 spots
*Seoul National University
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*Lima, Peru
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- 10 spots
*Matangwe, Kenya
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Research
McMaster's Faculty of Health Sciences oversees $223 million a year in research, ranking it 2nd in Canada for 5 years in a row. McMaster's Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS)is a hospital network of seven hospitals and a cancer centre serving Hamilton, Ontario
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hospital group is ranked 1st in Canada for researcher intensity with each researcher bringing in $711,000. It is also ranked 2nd in Canada in the top 40 research hospitals list. McMaster is considered a leader in clinical epidemiology and thrombosis research with names like Dr. Jack Hirsh
Jack Hirsh (born January 7, 1935) is a Canadian clinician and scientist specializing in anticoagulant therapy and thrombosis.
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, Dr. Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf (born 26 November 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian physician, the Marion W. Burke Chair in Cardiovascular Disease at McMaster University Medical School. He is a cardiologist and epidemiologist.
Early life and education
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leading the way. The American Society of Hematology and McMaster University are collaborating to release the official guidelines on the treatment of venous thromboembolism
Venous thrombosis is blockage of a vein caused by a thrombus (blood clot). A common form of venous thrombosis is deep vein thrombosis (DVT), when a blood clot forms in the deep veins. If a thrombus breaks off (embolizes) and flows to the lungs to ...
in 2017. In Thomson Reuters list of the World's most influential scientific minds in 2016, McMaster medical school had 9 different scientists mentioned with Prof. Gordon Guyatt
Gordon Henry Guyatt (born November 11, 1953) is a Canadian physician who is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) and Medicine at M ...
mentioned in two different categories.
* In 2010, McMaster scientists discovered how to turn adult skin cells into adult blood cells
* In 2015, McMaster scientists discovered how to turn adult blood cells into adult sensory neurons
* In 2017, McMaster researchers conducted the multinational PURE study, which demonstrated that a low fat diet was associated with a higher risk of premature death, this study was ranked the top article of 2017 by Altmetric
McMaster's Faculty of Health Sciences is home to 30 research institutes including the:
*Population Health Research Institute
*Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
The Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health (FIRH) is a center for the investigation and treatment of respiratory diseases. Based out of St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the institute is a clinical facility with strong rese ...
*McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute
*Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
*Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute
*Thrombosis & Atherosclerosis Research Institute
*Escarpment Cancer Research Institute
*Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care
*The Offord Center for Child Studies
*Geriatric Education and Research in Aging Sciences (GERAS) Centre
*Clinical Research Laboratory and Biobank RLB
McMaster initiated its M.D./Ph.D. program in 2007, accepting up to three students a year into the 7 year physician scientist program.
Funding
In 2003, McMaster University Medical School received the largest ever donation to a university in Canadian history when Michael DeGroote
Michael George DeGroote (August 13, 1933 – September 12, 2022) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist from Hamilton, Ontario, who resided in Bermuda. Aside from his business career, he was best known as a major private donor to local ...
donated $105 million to the medical school in the process naming it the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. In 2014, DeGroote donated an additional $50 million to the medical school.
Charles Juravinski has donated over $43 million to Hamilton area hospitals including the Juravinski Hospital
The Juravinski Hospital is a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada operated by Hamilton Health Sciences. It is located adjacent to the Juravinski Cancer Centre. The hospital was ranked 2nd in Canada for research according to Research Infosource Inc ...
. In 2019, the Juravinski's pledged to donate an additional $100 million to the medical school and create the Juravinski Research Centre, funding research in areas including cancer, mental health, lung and respiratory care and diseases of aging.
David Braley
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, owner of the BC Lions, donated $50 million to the medical school in 2007 to build the Braley Health Sciences Centre, a human embryonic stem cell library and an endowment fund.
In 2011 and 2012, the Boris Family donated a total of $41 million to McMaster University Medical School and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton to found the Boris Family Centre in Human Stem Cell Therapies, establish two chairs in Blood and Neural Stem Cells, found the Boris Clinic, fund alcohol addiction research and buy a surgical robot.
In 2022, Marnix Heersink, donated $32 million to the medical school to build the Marnix E. Heersink School of Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Mary Heersink Centre for Global Health.
Notable alumni
Notable faculty
* James Fraser Mustard
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, CC, Chair of Pathology (1966-1972), Dean of Medicine (1972-1982), discovered the effect of aspirin
Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to reduce pain, fever, and/or inflammation, and as an antithrombotic. Specific inflammatory conditions which aspirin is used to treat inc ...
in reducing myocardial infarction
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rates, founder and president of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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* John Evans, CC, Dean of Medicine (1966-1972), President of the University of Toronto
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, Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation
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and Director of the Population, Health and Nutrition department of the World Bank
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* David Sackett
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, Chair of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (1967-1994), founded the first department of Clinical Epidemiology in Canada, wrote ''Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM'' now in its 4th edition and ''Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research'' now in its 3rd edition
* Howard Barrows, Assistant Dean for Residency Education (1971-1980), pioneered problem-based learning
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at McMaster which has now spread all over the world
* Arnold Johnson, Professor of Cardiology (1974-1983), performed the first cardiac heart catheterization in Canada, founder of McMaster's Department of Cardiology
* John Coleman Laidlaw, Professor of Endocrinology (1975-1986), Dean of Medicine (1981-1985), founded the Institute of Medical Science at University of Toronto
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* Moran Campbell, Chair of Medicine (1968-1975), inventor of the Venturi mask The venturi mask, also known as an air-entrainment mask, is a medical device to deliver a known oxygen concentration to patients on controlled oxygen therapy. The mask was invented by Moran Campbell at McMaster University Medical School as a replac ...
* Jack Hirsh
Jack Hirsh (born January 7, 1935) is a Canadian clinician and scientist specializing in anticoagulant therapy and thrombosis.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Hirsh is a graduate of the University of Melbourne Medical School. He studied hematolo ...
, Professor Emeritus of Medicine (1973–Present), winner of the Canada Gairdner International Award
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in 2000 for discovering the effectiveness of heparin
Heparin, also known as unfractionated heparin (UFH), is a medication and naturally occurring glycosaminoglycan. Since heparins depend on the activity of antithrombin, they are considered anticoagulants. Specifically it is also used in the treatm ...
in deep vein thrombosis
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and the discovery of low molecular weight heparin
Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) is a class of anticoagulant medications. They are used in the prevention of blood clots and treatment of venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) and in the treatment of myocardial in ...
* Charles Gordon Roland, Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine (1977-1999), President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and noted authority on Sir William Osler
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* John Bienenstock, Dean and Vice President of Health Sciences (1992-1996), characterized mucosal mast cells and bronchus associated lymphoid tissues
* Salim Yusuf
Salim Yusuf (born 26 November 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian physician, the Marion W. Burke Chair in Cardiovascular Disease at McMaster University Medical School. He is a cardiologist and epidemiologist.
Early life and education
Born in the ...
, Professor of Medicine (1992–Present), world's second most cited researcher, prolific clinical trials physician in cardiovascular diseases
* John G. Kelton, Dean of Medicine (2001–2016), Dean and Vice-President of the Faculty of Health Sciences (2001–2016), hematologist and expert in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is the development of thrombocytopenia (a low platelet count), due to the administration of various forms of heparin, an anticoagulant. HIT predisposes to thrombosis (the abnormal formation of blood clots in ...
* Dave Williams, Professor of Surgery (2008-2011), Canadian astronaut and physician, Director of the Space and Life Sciences Directorate at the Johnson Space Center
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* John Basmajian, OC, OOnt, Professor of Medicine (1977-1986), pioneer in electromyography
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and biofeedback
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* Stuart Lyon Smith, Professor of Medicine (1967-1975), Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
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, Chairman of the Science Council of Canada The Science Council of Canada (SCC) was a Canadian governmental advisory board existing from 1966 to 1993. It originally had 25 scientists and senior civil servants, later expanded to 40 natural and physical scientists, with the civil servants remo ...
* Donald Acheson, KBE, Visiting Professor of Medicine (1977), Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom and coined the term "Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis"
* Paul O'Byrne
Paul O'Byrne, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., FRCPI, FRCPC, FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Glas) is an Irish-Canadian respirologist, the Dean and Vice President-elect of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Dean of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster Uni ...
, Dean of Medicine (2016–Present), Dean and Vice-President of the Faculty of Health Sciences (2016–Present), respirologist and expert in allergy induced asthma
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In popular culture
* In 2018, The magazine Maclean's
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wrote an article about McMaster's innovative medical curriculum
* In 2017, On the TV show Amazing Race Canada, it was publicly revealed that Sam Lambert, one of that season's contestants, had been accepted to the medical school in the class of 2020
* In 2015, McMaster's medical school was part of an eight part international documentary series entitled ''Canada's New Doctors'', by Al-Jazeera
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and Companion Media and Culture Co. in China, examining the topic of how to best train medical professionals
* In 2012, McMaster medical students starred in a one-hour documentary by OMNI Television
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called M.D(iversity)
* In 2009, The Rick Mercer Report
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filmed a segment about McMaster University
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, visiting the medical school to see its new clinical skills models
* In 2004, The magazine Saturday Night published a report on PBL and McMaster Medical School's innovative curriculum
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