Recognizing our residents and fellows

Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) is proud to celebrate Resident and Fellow Appreciation Day on February 25. Residents and fellows are a significant part...
February 25, 2022

Artificial intelligence tutoring outperforms expert instructors in neurosurgical training

Machine learning algorithms enhanced technical performance and learning outcomes during simulated brain tumour removal The COVID-19 pandemic has presented both challenges and opportunities...
February 24, 2022

Promising new approach to rebuild bone tissue

Yiwen Chen and Professor Marta Cerruti Over the last 30 years, the scientific community has been working to develop a synthetic alternative to...
February 17, 2022

Prioritizing supports to specific neighbourhoods is key to curbing COVID-19 transmission

Pandemic hotspots in Canadian cities linked to income, occupation, and structural racism The COVID-19 pandemic has uneven impacts across cities and provinces, with...
February 17, 2022

Moving from the books to the bedside

Dr. Natasha Caminsky, a third-year General Surgery resident and graduate of the MDCM program at McGill, is now one of the teachers who...
February 10, 2022

New TOTAL eLearning initiative from the McGill Dementia Education Program will benefit from funding

A new initiative by McGill University’s Dementia Education Program is among the 15 projects that will receive funding from the Public Health Agency...
February 10, 2022

Combining land-based learning with anatomy lessons: Indigenous Health Professions Program youth outreach

IHPP’s Alex Allard-Gray led a group of Mi’gmaq youth through the dissection of the heart of a moose they hunted themselves When Alex...
February 9, 2022

Win4Science: bridging the gap for women in science

While women represent a little over 50 per cent of the Canadian population, their representation in natural and applied sciences and related occupations...
February 4, 2022

Canada’s poverty rate has gone down, but deep inequities persist: report

Pandemic disproportionately impacted marginalized groups, says McGill’s Anne Andermann, member of the National Advisory Council on Poverty which authored the report Canada’s poverty...
January 27, 2022

Helping kids deal with the mental burdens of COVID

“There is a large body of evidence from scientific research studies – including my own research – which supports that contact with nature...
January 20, 2022

Guiding high school students to careers in healthcare

McGill health sciences students provide mentorship to those interested in health professions In 2019, a group of McGill medical students decided they wanted...
January 15, 2022

$2M to the MUHC Foundation for precision cancer care

Dr. Peter Metrakos, Cancer Research Program Leader at the Research Institute of the MUHC, addresses the media following the BMO Financial Group announcement...
January 15, 2022