Todays schedule:

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Todays schedule
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An overview of the McGill Medical Curriculum

• Dr. Joyce Pickering
• Associate Dean
• Medical Education and Student Affairs

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What is our goal?

• To help you become the best possible physicians
  and dentists.

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What is a good physician?

• An expert
• A communicator
• A scholar
• An advocate for health
• An effective manager
• A professional
• A collaborator

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• These roles are also known as CanMEDS roles, and
  our curricular objectives are organized around
  them.
• Being a health professional means life long
  learning these 4 coming years are just the
  first 4 years of a life of learning and growing
  in these roles.

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Dr. Colin Chalk, Basis of Medicine Component Chair
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Basis of Medicine (BOM)

• First 16 months (until Christmas, 2009) - to
  learn the normal and abnormal ways the body and
  mind function.
• Lectures, small groups, labs, computer assisted
  instruction, interactive large group sessions.
• Limited patient contact (2nd year gt 1st)
• Dentistry students follow the identical
  curriculum, except for Dentistry Apprenticeship
  instead of Physician Apprenticeship.

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Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM)

• From Jan to June, 2010.
• To apply the material learned in BOM and to learn
  new clinical material in a supervised clinical
  setting. Lots of patient contact, but no direct
  patient responsibility.
• Will rotate to various hospitals. Teaching will
  vary from lectures to one-on-one teaching of
  techniques
• Basic Cardiac life support (BCLS) taken.

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Introduction to Clinical Medicine
Bedside teaching during Introduction to Internal
Medicine
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Nicole Guedon, ICM and Clerkships Coordinator
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Dr. Lisa Graves, Clerkship Director
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Core Clerkship

• From August 2009 to July 2010
• Will spend 4 to 8 weeks in various disciplines in
  the hospitals or community settings (eg. surgery,
  family medicine, psychiatry etc.)
• Are given patient responsibility, but always
  under supervision
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course taken
  during this time.
• 6 to 8 students will be able to do an integrated
  clerkship (1 year) in the Gatineau region.

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Jeff Segal, Class of 2007, examining a patient
during his medicine clerkship
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Senior Clerkship

• August 2010 to April, 2011
• Continued clerkships in more advanced clinical
  specialties (Emergency, surgical specialties,
  geriatrics)
• Elective rotations (clinical electives or basic
  science courses)
• A 4 week course titled Medicine and Society

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Electives Coordinators
Eva Pilla (McGill Students) and Mary Cecere (non
McGill students)
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Physicianship

• Being a good doctor is more than just knowing a
  lot of facts and being a good technician.
• Communication skills, compassion and professional
  behaviour are also essential to being a good
  physician.
• Physicianship courses run longitudinally
  throughout the 4 years, and focus on these
  attributes of being a physician.

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Dr. David Dawson, Chair of Physicianship
Component
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Toby Cape, Coordinator for Physicianship courses
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Graduation

• End of May, 2012!

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Residency

• July 2012 . . . .

Dr. Pierre Tellier, Director of Student Affairs
Andrea McDaniel, Career Counseling
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Marks

• Basis of Medicine (first 16 months) is pass/fail.
• ICM (subsequent 6 months) is pass/fail or a 5
  point scale (fail, below expectations, meets
  expectations, above expectations, superior)
• Clerkships and electives are graded on a 5 point
  scale.

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Basis of Medicine

• Although pass/fail is the only mark that appears
  on your transcript, we do keep track of numerical
  grades for purposes of prizes, scholarships, and
  identifying students in difficulty.
• You must have at least 60 in each unit and an
  overall average of at least 65 to pass each
  promotion period.
• You will be asked to come and see me if your mark
  at the end of any unit is in the bottom 2.5 of
  the class.

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Silvana Dilollo, Senior Administrative Officer
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Anna Lee, Student records
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Basis of Medicine

• Basis of Medicine includes 11 units.
• Eight of the units (they vary in length from 3 to
  13 weeks) teach the basic sciences.
• Physicianship 1 runs during your first year.
• Physicianship 2 runs during the first half of
  second year.
• Physician Apprenticeship 1 and 2 run during year
  1 and year 2 respectively.

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Marks in the BOM units

• Each unit has their own marking scheme-
• Eg. Unit 1 7.5 histology quizzes
• 7.5 small group mark
• 75 final multiple choice exam
• 10 lab exam
• Please note attendance at labs and small groups
  is compulsory and will usually form part of your
  mark. Attendance at lectures is normally not
  compulsory you will be notified if it is.

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Basis of Medicine teaching venues
Martin, Herbert Black 2nd floor, Palmer Howard
M1, 1/56, 2/49
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We also want you to evaluate us

• We will do course evaluations at the end of each
  unit.
• Each small group will send a representative to a
  roundtable feedback session with the Unit Chair
  and Basis of Medicine chair at the end of each
  unit.
• You are welcome to meet individually with your
  professors, the Unit Chair or myself if you have
  concerns that are not addressed by the course
  evaluation and/or feedback session.

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Self directed learning

• One of our goals is to help you become effective,
  life long learners.
• We move you gradually to less and less structure
  in teaching, expecting you to learn to direct
  your own learning.
• We will guide you in what you need to know.
  However, not everything that you need to know for
  exams (or for life . . .) will be covered in the
  lectures or small groups.

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Maryse Grignon, Curriculum Management
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Professionalism

• Physicians and dentists have to be trustworthy.
• Our faculties therefore take academic integrity
  and behaviour very seriously.
• Falsification of data, stealing, chronic
  tardiness and irresponsibility have been reasons
  for students to be requested to leave the
  Faculty.
• Unprofessional behaviour is recorded and can
  appear on your student record and/or letters
  required for residency application.
• We do not distinguish between academic and
  conduct probation, because conduct is as
  important as your knowledge and technical skill.

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E-curriculum

• Our lectures, notes and some cases are on line,
  on WebCT. (www.mcgill.ca/mycourses)
• We also hand out the lecture notes for each unit.
• We send out notices about changes in the
  schedule, assignments, exams etc. We will use
  your firstname.lastname_at_mail.mcgill.ca address.
• Please ensure that you check this email
  regularly.

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We want you to enjoy being a medical student

• The human body and mind are fascinating topics.
• There are many varied careers in medicine.
• It is a privilege to be a physician and to be
  able to care for others.
• The bad times are far outweighed by the good
  times.

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Une bienvenue spéciale pour nos
étudiants/étudiantes francophones

• Tous les étudiants on le droit de rédiger leurs
  examens, leurs thèses et mémoires dans lune ou
  lautre langue, sauf dans les cours dont lun des
  objectifs primordiaux est la connaissance dune
  langue.

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For anglophone students

• Although the Basis of Medicine and all formal
  courses are conducted in English, many patients
  in our hospitals are primarily French speaking.
  You may also be assigned to hospitals (Douglas,
  LaSalle, Gatineau) where the language of work is
  French.
• So we ask you to hone your French language skills
  as required. Workshops are available for medical
  French you have received information about them
  in your orientation package and can contact Anna
  Lee for further info.

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Contact us

• Most McGill staff have an email that is
• Firstname.lastname_at_mcgill.ca
• For eg, I am Joyce.Pickering_at_mcgill.ca
• Silvana is Silvana.Dilollo_at_mcgill.ca
• Dr. Tellier is Pierre-Paul.Tellier_at_mcgil
  l.ca
• OR curriculum specific titles for Basis of
  Medicine, Toby Cape, use basis.med_at_mcgill.ca
• Check out our website www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme
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Not sure where to start?
Dannie Moronval, secretary to Dr. Pickering,
studentaffairs.med_at_mcgill.ca
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Its all in the Red Book!
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You may wish to spend your weekend doing this . .
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QUIZ TIME!
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What is the correct order for the curriculum
components (MDCM)?

• Intro to Clinical Med, Basis of Med, Clerkship,
  Senior clerkship
• Clerkship, Introduction to Clinical Med, Basis of
  Med, Senior Clerkship
• Basis of Med, Intro to Clinical Med, Clerkship
  Senior Clerkship

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What is the name of the Student Affairs Officer?

• Toby Cape
• Nicole Guedon
• Silvana Di Lollo
• Andrea McDaniel
• Eva Pilla

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What is the name of the coordinator for the
Physicianship courses?

• Toby Cape
• Nicole Guedon
• Mary Cecere
• Andrea McDaniel
• Eva Pilla

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What is the name of the Career Counseling Advisor?

• Maryse Grignon
• Nicole Guedon
• Mary Cecere
• Andrea McDaniel
• Eva Pilla

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What is the name of the Electives Coordinator for
McGill students?

• Maryse Grignon
• Nicole Guedon
• Mary Cecere
• Anna Lee
• Eva Pilla

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What is the name of the Student Records
Coordinator I should contact about French
workshops?

• Maryse Grignon
• Nicole Guedon
• Mary Cecere
• Anna Lee
• Danielle Moronval

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What is the name of the ICM and Clerkships
Coordinator?

• Maryse Grignon
• Nicole Guedon
• Mary Cecere
• Anne Briggs
• Danielle Moronval

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Bonus points In what country is Dr. Dawson in
this picture?

• Haiti
• Canada
• Sierra Leone
• Guatemala

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Welcome! Bienvenue!