MDCM Class of 2024 Graduation Awards Ceremony & Luncheon: The day in photos

Graduating medical students from the Montreal and Outaouais campuses come together, for the first time ever, to celebrate at the MDCM Class of 2024 Graduation Awards Ceremony and Luncheon.

Graduating medical students from the Montreal and Outaouais campuses came together, for the first time ever, to celebrate and to recognize their outstanding peers and teachers

On May 27, McGill’s 192nd graduating medical class was celebrated at the MDCM Class of 2024 Graduation Awards Ceremony and Luncheon at the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. Hailing from the Montreal and Outaouais medical campuses, the grads-to-be came together, for the first time ever, to mark this important milestone in their academic career in the presence of mentors, faculty and administrative staff.

Faculty leaders and Class Presidents share remarks

Mélanie Mondou, MDCM, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME), emceed the event, and Sabrina Fallavollita, MDCM, Assistant Dean of UGME, led the awards distribution at the ceremony. Leaders from both campuses shared their congratulatory wishes and words of wisdom with the Class, including Lesley Fellows, MDCM, DPhil, Vice-President (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; Danyèle Lacombe, MD, Vice-Dean and Director of Campus Outaouais; and Marion Koch, MD, Program Director of UGME at Campus Outaouais.

Class Presidents Abed Baiad and Mahmoud Moustafa, from the Montreal and Outaouais campuses respectively, shared some fond memories and uplifting words with their peers, garnering a round of applause from the crowd.

Recognizing outstanding students and faculty

During the graduation awards ceremony, more than 20 student prizes and awards were distributed to recognize excellence in various fields. It was also an opportune moment to honour the recipients of three faculty awards. Clerkship Component Director Sonia Macfarlane, MDCM, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the 2024 MSW Wellness Award for Teaching – a student-voted award given to a clinical teacher who best models a commendable life-work balance through expert professionalism, clinical competence and exemplary self-care.  Maxime Labelle, MDCM, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, Campus Outaouais, and Gabriel Venne DO, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Montreal Campus, received the 2024 Osler Awards for Outstanding Teaching. These Convocation awards are given to professors who, in the opinion of the graduating medical students, have made the most outstanding contribution to their medical education.  

The awards ceremony was followed by a luncheon hosted by VP-Dean Fellows. Smiles, laughter and proud faces illuminated the event, one of the last formal celebrations for the Class of 2024 before Convocation the next day.

Celebrating sustainably

As a further feather in our cap, we are pleased to announce that the MDCM Class of 2024 Graduation Awards Ceremony and Luncheon was awarded, for the first time ever, Silver Sustainable Event certification by the McGill Sustainable Events program run by the McGill Office of Sustainability. This certification, which encourages environmentally responsible practices, promotes diversity of programming and participants, and increases accessibility by reducing barriers, highlights the FMHS’ commitment to McGill University’s Climate & Sustainability Strategy and our efforts to move towards a better future for our local and global societies.

Photos from the event can be viewed below. Credit: Owen Egan and Joni Dufour

: Dr. Mélanie Mondou

: Dr. Mélanie Mondou

: Dr. Lesley Fellows

: Dr. Lesley Fellows

: Abed Baiad

: Mahmoud Moustafa

: Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Dr. Marion Koch

: Dr. Sabrina Fallavollita

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Inès Muriel Dupuis (J. Francis William Prize in Medicine and Clinical Medicine), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Ericka A. Iny (Keenan Memorial Prize in Clinical Surgery ), Johanna Dobransky (Robert Forsyth Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Chelsea Pozzebon (Montreal Children’s Hospital Prize for Pediatrics Excellence), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Dorsa Majdpour (Brian Newton Memorial Award), Alissa Rutman (Newell W. Philpott Award), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Koty Negreanu (John H. Altshuler Prize in Family Medicine), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Lucie Dubes (Psychiatry Prize), Alissa Rutman (Mona Bronfman Sheckman Psychiatry Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Dorsa Majdpour (E. David Sherman Award in Geriatric Medicine), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Sophie Levasseur (Vascular Surgery Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Abed Baiad (Dr. Mark Cohen Prize in Ophthalmology), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Emily Oulousian (H.S. Birkett Memorial Prize in Otorhinolaryngology), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Kashif Khan (Scriver-Steinberg Convocation Prize in Human Genetics), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Shadi Hadj Youssef (CHAP Graduation Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Abed Baiad and Camille Rochefort (Ronald Douglas Naymark Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Amélie Rochon (Strachan Alexander Hartley Award), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Chelsea Pozzebon (Alexander D. Stewart Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Inès Muriel Dupuis (Elizabeth Ann Munro Gordon Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Eliana Rohr (Reilly Madsen Prize), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Johanna Dobransky (Dr. Allen Spanier Prize for Professionalism in Medicine), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Chelsea Pozzebon (Holmes Gold Medal), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Courtenay Wood (Wood Gold Medal), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Dr. Sonia Macfarlane (MSW Wellness Award for Teaching ), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe

: Left to right: Dr. Lesley Fellows, Dr. Mélanie Mondou, Professor Gabriel Venne (Osler Award for Outstanding Teaching, Montreal Campus), Dr. Marion Koch, Dr. Danyèle Lacombe