Education
Congratulations to the Classes of 2011
The McGill Faculty of Medicine Classes of 2011 reached an important milestone this week and celebrated in style. “I know it wasn’t easy...
June 2, 2011
Faculty candidates for Greatest McGillian
The creator of modern medical training, the innovator of the blood bank, the co-developer of an anti-AIDS drug, or one of Canada’s earliest...
June 2, 2011
New MDCM option for international medical graduates
McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine has introduced another initiative aimed at fostering diversity in the classroom. Beginning fall 2011, IMGs who are Quebec...
May 26, 2011
Ovation winners
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Dean of Medicine Awards of Excellence, the winners are: Anne McCormick Award – M Classification Ilde...
May 18, 2011
For the fight against childhood cancer
Pediatric and young adult leukemia and lymphoma research in Quebec received a massive boost, following the Cole Foundation's announcement that it would provide...
May 17, 2011
Life-saving mutation discovery
Philippe Gros, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and his colleagues have found two distinct disease-causing mutations, a finding which helped save the...
May 6, 2011
Building new connections
By Sol Inés Peca In the 1980s, Dr. Albert Aguayo and his colleagues at McGill’s Centre for Research in Neuroscience were the first...
May 3, 2011
Publishing in the age of the digital doctor
VP-Dean Richard I. Levincontributes to the latest issue of Current Oncology, a Canadian based and Internationally distributed journal. "We are living in the...
April 29, 2011
Acquiring new words
By Marlene Busko To learn a new word, a child with autism might rely on strategies such as mapping it to a visually...
April 19, 2011
Filters that reduce ‘brain clutter’ identified
McGill researchers suggest malfunctions in neurons that filter visual information may be responsible for diseases such as ADHD and schizophrenia. Until now, it...
April 14, 2011
Breaking through prejudice
By Sol Inés Peca Loydie Jerome-Majewska’s days are filled with attempts to strike the perfect balance between writing grants and papers, running a...
April 10, 2011