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The teaching hospital network of McGill University is an integral part of the research, teaching, and clinical activities of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. By agreement and tradition, the administration, medical staff, and scientific personnel of these institutions are closely integrated with McGill University and form the basis for the clinical departments of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) / Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM) is a merger of seven teaching hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University.
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) offers specialized and multidisciplinary tertiary and quaternary care of exceptional quality focused on the needs of adult and pediatric patients, in a bilingual environment, making it one of the most comprehensive teaching hospitals in North America. Every year, the MUHC receives more than 539,890 ambulatory visits; admits over 34,280 inpatients; performs more than 28,560 surgeries; and delivers almost 3,000 babies yearly.
Affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of McGill University, the MUHC contributes to the evolution of medicine by attracting clinical and scientific experts from around the world, evaluating cutting-edge medical technologies, and training tomorrow's healthcare professionals.
Our activities are carried out at the following locations:
The MUHC is a community of more than 17,000 people working within the organization's seven clinical missions: Medicine, Surgery, Neurosciences, Mental Health, Women's Health, Cancer Care and the Montreal Children's Hospital. In 2022–2023, our workforce comprised 3,793 nurses, licensed practical nurses, cardiorespiratory staff, and orderlies; 2,098 health professionals other than physicians and nurses (includes some residents and technicians); 3,493 researchers, investigators, students, postdoctoral fellows and other members of the Research Institute of the MUHC (RI-MUHC); 1,564 physicians, dentists and pharmacists; 339 managers; 2,237 office staff; 2,531 paratechnical and trades employees; and 863 active volunteers.
In addition to our clinical expertise, we are proud of the quality and rigour of our clinical and scientific training. All MUHC physicians are appointed professors at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. Each year, we welcome around 3,400 students and interns from university and college levels, as well as from professional schools.
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and healthcare research centre. The Institute, which is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of McGill University, supports almost 700 researchers and more than 1,470 research trainees devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental, clinical, and evaluative research at the Glen site and the Montreal General Hospital. Its research facilities provide a dynamic multidisciplinary research environment that fosters collaboration and leverages discoveries aimed at improving the health of patients across their lifespan. The RI-MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS). More information is available at rimuhc.ca.
The MUHC acts as the server laboratory for the Montreal-multi-institutional cluster of OPTILAB. In addition to the MUHC, the cluster includes laboratories in the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, the CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and the CISSS de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
In 2015, the MUHC brought together our legacy sites—the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital, the Montreal Chest Institute, and the Cedars Cancer Centre—onto one site: the Glen. At the Glen site, our vision of excellence is taking shape by integrating healthcare, research and teaching on a new level. With custom-built facilities, state-of-the-art equipment and nurturing healing environments, we are pushing the boundaries of innovation for our current generation and those to come. Major construction and renovations are also underway at our other MUHC sites—the Montreal General Hospital, the Montreal Neurological Hospital and the Lachine Hospital—as we continue to strive to provide the best care for life for our patients and families.
For more information on the MUHC, visit muhc.ca.
There are three other principal teaching hospitals:
Jewish General Hospital (a member facility of the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal / Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) du Centre-Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal)
Since 1934, the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has served patients—of diverse religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds—who reside in Montreal, elsewhere in Quebec, and beyond. As one of the province's largest acute-care hospitals, this 637-bed McGill University teaching hospital admits more than 22,000 patients per year, while handling approximately 592,000 outpatient visits; more than 84,700 emergency visits; more than 3,600 births; and at least 12,000 surgical procedures. The JGH is widely recognized for excellence in various specialties, including oncology at the Segal Cancer Centre, cardiology, neonatology, orthopedics, family medicine, aging, and emergency medicine. In addition, several services—including the Emergency Department, Intensive Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, Coronary Care, and the operating rooms—are based in their own critical-care pavilion. The hospital has been designated by the government of Quebec as one of Montreal's five major service centres, as a provincial centre for high-risk obstetrical and neonatal care, and as a breast referral and investigation centre. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the JGH played a leading role in treatment and care, having been designated by the provincial government in early 2020 as one of the first healthcare centres to provide in-patient treatment to adults who were ill with the virus.
Treatment is provided by approximately 850 affiliated doctors, many of whom have teaching appointments at McGill University, as well as more than 300 medical residents per year, together with nursing and a wide range of allied health services. The Jewish General Hospital carries out a substantial amount of training for McGill's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. It is also home to several of the University's programs, including the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases (encompassing research formerly conducted by the McGill AIDS Centre), the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer, the McGill Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology Program, and the McGill Menopause Clinic.
The hospital's Lady Davis Institute is acknowledged as a world leader in many fields of research, including cancer (the Terry Fox Molecular Oncology Group), aging (the Bloomfield Centre for Studies in Aging), epidemiology (the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies), nursing (the Centre for Nursing Research), cardiovascular disease, genetics, emergency medicine, nephrology, and the psychosocial aspects of illness. The outstanding quality of this work has enabled the Lady Davis Institute to rank among the leaders of Quebec’s hospital-affiliated research institutions in attracting high levels of funding per researcher.
More information is available at jgh.ca.
St. Mary's Hospital Center (Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre/Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal)
St. Mary's Hospital Center (SMHC) is an acute-care specialized McGill University affiliated teaching hospital with 271 adult beds. Its official designation as a university-affiliated teaching hospital or a CHAU (Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire) further reinforces its commitment and ability to deliver high quality health care while playing a leading role in the areas of teaching and research. It is responsible for the training of a large cohort of undergraduate and post-graduate students in Medicine and the allied health disciplines.
In 2022–2023, over 3,563 babies were delivered at St. Mary's, which is the first hospital in Montreal to have received the World Health Organization's (WHO) international recognition of Baby Friendly Hospital Status by the Quebec ministry of health. St. Mary's also has a progressive and active Family Medicine Centre recognized for its teaching. The Hospital also provides numerous highly specialized services such as renal dialysis, oncology, geriatric assessment, and psycho-geriatric, nuclear medicine, C.T. scanning services, as well as MRI exams. There are more than 94,301 out-patient clinic visits; 6,589 procedures through the surgical day centre, and over 14,106 patient admissions, in addition to ambulatory care visits, annually. The Hospital is noted for its devotion to patients, motivation toward the achievement of excellence, and compassionate care.
St Mary's Research Centre is embedded in St Mary's Hospital Center. Visit the St. Mary's Research Centre page to learn more.
Douglas Mental Health University Institute (Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre /Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal)
Founded in 1881, the Douglas Mental Health University Institute has a triple mission of care, research, and teaching. A member of the McGill Integrated University Health and Social Services Network (RUISSS McGill) and affiliated with the World Health Organization, it offers hospitalization and extensive out-patient services.
The hospital provides child and adolescent, adult, and geriatric clinical services, and is dedicated to treating patients in the least restrictive manner possible, with a major focus on rehabilitation and successful reintegration into the community. It offers training for residents in psychiatry, as well as for medical and paramedical students from a wide range of disciplines. There are more than 110,063 interventions carried out annually in all programs combined.
The Douglas Institute is one of the largest research centres in mental health in the country, with a team of 68 scientists and clinical researchers and more than 275 university students. This team is devoted to making better sense of the causes of mental disorders—whether genetic, environmental, cultural, or social—as well as developing diagnostic tools, treatments, and prevention methods.
The Douglas Research Centre, embedded in the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, is the second largest mental health research centre in Canada, comprising a team of multi-disciplinary Principal Investigators, and MSc and PhD students and postdocs from diverse departments at McGill University and other institutions.
The Douglas Research Centre is also home to McGill University centres in schizophrenia, aging, and suicide, as well as the Montreal Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Training in Mental Health, which offers consultation services, research, and teaching programs here and abroad.
Visit the Douglas Research Centre website to learn more.
As part of the Quebec Government’s health care reform in 2015, most health care institutions merged and grouped into larger entities called either a Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS), or a Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS). In general, contracts of affiliation are no longer between individual hospitals and the University but between these larger entities and the University.
The following institutions have contracts of affiliation with McGill University for participation in teaching and research in one or more departments and services:
The McGill University Undergraduate Teaching Dental Clinic, previously located in the Montreal General Hospital, is now located at:
At the clinic, students in the undergraduate program are taught under the guidance of the dental staff to carry out various phases of clinical dentistry and related laboratory procedures. They attend this clinic daily except for such time as may be taken up by lectures or other university work.
The Clinical Nutrition Research Unit is a state-of-the-art research facility located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
The Unit was developed in 1995 with the objective to create a facility dedicated to in-patient human nutrition experimentation using precisely controlled diets. The Unit is housed in a detached 5,000 sq. ft. building located at the perimeter of the Macdonald Campus with easy access to the community at large. This Unit is capable of supporting research subjects on an in-patient basis. The facility is unique in Canada, in that it allows strict, in-house monitoring and testing of research subjects over prolonged periods while they consume diets prepared in-house. It is equipped with technology for comprehensive physiological assessments of body composition and sampling of biospecimens; an exercise area equipped to precisely measure metabolic parameters; cutting-edge research kitchen and dining observation room to study eating behaviours and deliver controlled feeding studies; a sensometric food lab with wearable devices to measure neural and behavioural responses to food and retail stimuli; a computing lab to analyze "big data" from biological and nutritional assessments; and a first-in-Canada food pharmacy to deliver personalized nutrition to patient groups for chronic disease management.
The Unit is a self-supporting initiative which is available for use by external researchers. For further information regarding collaborative or independent extramural research interests, contact the Director of the School of Human Nutrition.
This centre's website is a public service website with reviews, papers, videos, books, and monographs, all complimentary from the director. It is the major international reference source in this area.
Access to all of the McGill University library branches and to the library's licensed electronic resources is available to all McGill faculty, staff, and students. Information on locations, opening hours, collections, and services can be found at mcgill.ca/library. Several of the library branches are likely to be of particular interest to health sciences users.
Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering
The Schulich Library is located in the Macdonald-Stewart Library Building. PLEASE NOTE: Library entrance is via the Frank Dawson Adams building, west lobby, near the FDA auditorium. Subject-specialized liaison librarians are available to meet research, learning, and teaching needs of students and staff. More details are available on the Library website.
Osler Library of the History of Medicine
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine has as its nucleus the 8,000 volumes willed to McGill University in 1919 by Sir William Osler, one of its most famous pupils and teachers. More details are available on the library website.
Macdonald Campus Library
The Macdonald Campus Library, located in the Barton Building, is a primary resource for Dietetics and Human Nutrition users. The Library's collection encompasses a wide variety of resources in agriculture, food and animal science, nutrition, the environment, ecology, plant science, and agricultural engineering. The Library's hours vary throughout the year and are available on the website noted below.
