Annual Report of the Department of Medicine, 2018-2020
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For the first time, the 2018-2020 Annual Report highlights personal stories of some of the outstanding individuals within the department.
The 2018-2020 Annual Report showcases the achievements of the department’s leaders, faculty, and clinicians; their groundbreaking research projects; their deep commitment to improving global health; their innovative education methods; and their passion for advocating for some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
For the first time, this report highlights the personal stories of some of the outstanding individuals within the department. As you read the report and extraordinary stories highlighted throughout, you will find evidence of our faculty’s commitment to excellence in learning, research and clinical care.
Below are some highlights from the report:
“McMaster remains one of only four Canadian universities ranked among the top 100 in the world by majorglobal ranking systems. It is also not surprising that the 2020 list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes 16 scientists from the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University.” – Dr. David Farrar, President and Vice- Chancellor
“The Department of Medicine’s pioneering educational advances and excellence in world-class research continues to place McMaster among the top 50 universities in the world for health and medicine, and one of Canada’s top research-intensive university for the past three years. We also ranked 11th in the world for clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects by the Times Higher Education World University rankings for 2021, a remarkable achievement made possible by the extraordinary efforts of the members of the Department”. – Dr. Paul O’Byrne, Dean and Vice-President
“The Department continued its remarkable track record of publication and grant funding success. It is a rare week when there is not at least one research publication from a McMaster Department of Medicine researcher featured in one of the leading general internal medicine journals. Critical papers in cardiology, gastroenterology, respirology, hematology and thromboembolism, and many other disciplines have been published by our faculty within the last year.” – Dr. Mark Crowther, Chair, Department of Medicine
“There is a very high rate of people with substance abuse problems leaving the hospital against medical advice, in large part due to trying to mitigate withdrawal symptoms. If those symptoms are managed in hospital, that can become a gateway to providing more fulsome and meaningful care.” – Dr. Leslie Martin, Assistant Professor, Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program
“On March 16, 2020, during the earliest stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster made the difficult decision to pull its undergraduate medical students out of the clinical learning environment. The system was in crisis and nobody knew what they were dealing with. We didn’t have a good understanding of safety… We had faculty from across the Departments at McMaster who hosted those live teaching sessions and created the content very last minute. It was really incredible to see such strong collaboration.” – Dr. Jill Rudkowski, Associate Professor, the Chair of Clerkship and Concept Integration and Review for the DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.
“While healthcare providers are incredibly driven and talented, we’re not perfect, and we need to be supported in our development.” – Dr. Teresa Chan, Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Continuing Professional Development.
“An exciting development in 2021 will be the deployment of the Schroeder Allergy and Immunology Research Institute through a generous gift from the Walter and Maria Schroeder Foundation. ” – Dr. Jaclyn Quirt, Director of the McMaster Clinical Immunology and Allergy Training Program
The full annual report is available here
A video message by the Chair is available on DOM YouTube
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