McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences

The faculty currently houses the following departments:{{Cite web |title=Schools & Bepartments |url=https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/education-admissions/schools-departments/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=Faculty of Health Sciences}}

• Anesthesia
• Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
• Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact
• Family Medicine
• Medical Imaging
• Medicine
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Oncology
• Pathology & Molecular Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
• Surgery

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The faculty currently houses the following undergraduate programs:{{Cite web |title=Undergraduate Programs |url=https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/education-admissions/undergraduate-programs/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=Faculty of Health Sciences}}

• Honours Health Sciences Program (formerly Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program){{Cite web |title=Honours Health Sciences Program |url=https://hhsp.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/ |access-date=Jan 28, 2025 |website=Faculty of Health Sciences}}
• Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences
• Integrated Rehabilitation & Humanities
• Honours Biochemistry
• Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization Program
• Biology & Pharmacology Co-Op Program

• Midwifery Education Program
• Bachelor of Science Nursing Program
• Physician Assistant Education Program
• Undergraduate Medical Education Program

The faculty currently houses the following graduate programs:{{Cite web |title=Programs |url=https://grad.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/programs/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=Faculty of Health Sciences Graduate Studies}}

• Research-oriented programs:{{Cite web |title=Research Programs |url=https://grad.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/programs/research-programs/ |publisher=Faculty of Health Sciences |access-date=26 January 2025}} Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering (in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering), Chemical Biology, eHealth (in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering and the DeGroote School of Business), Global Health (in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the DeGroote School of Business), Health Policy, Health Research Methodology, Health Science Education, Medical Sciences, Midwifery, Neuroscience (in collaboration with the Faculties of Science, Engineering, and Humanities), Nursing, Public Health, Rehabilitation Science
• Professional programs:{{Cite web |title=Professional Programs |url=https://grad.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/programs/professionalprograms/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=Faculty of Health Sciences}} Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization, Biomedical Innovation, Child Life & Pediatric Psychosocial Care, Health Management (in collaboration with the DeGroote School of Business), Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychotherapy, Speech-Language Pathology
• Diploma programs:{{Cite web |title=Diploma Programs |url=https://grad.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/programs/diplomaprograms/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=Faculty of Health Sciences}} Astrobiology (in collaboration with the Faculty of Science), Clinical Behavioural Sciences, Clinical Epidemiology, Community and Public Health, Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner, Water Without Borders (in collaboration with the United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health)

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The faculty currently operate a number of facilities on the McMaster's main campus and around Ontario for both education and research. The faculty also operates its own library at the university, known as the Health Sciences Library. The Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, which houses the faculty's medical school also houses more than 250 scientists and McMaster's medical institutes including, the Centre for Function Genomics, Centre for Gene Therapeutics, Institute for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Research, Robert E. Fitzhenry Vector Laboratory, Centre for Asthma and Allergy Research (Allergen), the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care and North American Headquarters for West Nile studies.{{cite web |year=2011 |title=Tour of the Facilities |url=http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/tour.html |accessdate=24 June 2011 |work=Faculty of Health Sciences |publisher=McMaster University}}

The faculty also operate two regional campuses in St. Catharines, Ontario and Kitchener, Ontario. The campus in Kitchener, known as the Waterloo Regional Campus, shares facilities with the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo.{{cite web|url=http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/mdprog/waterloo_regional_campus.html|title=Waterloo Regional Campus|work=Faculty of Health Sciences|publisher=McMaster University|year=2011|accessdate=21 January 2011}} The campus in St. Catharines is located at Brock University's Niagara Health and Bioscience Research Complex.{{cite web|url=http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=6404|title=Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine celebrates Niagara partnerships|work=McMaster Daily News|publisher=Office of Public Relations, McMaster University|date=30 September 2009|accessdate=21 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706190001/http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=6404|archive-date=6 July 2011|url-status=dead}} Approximately 30 medical students in each year of the program attend each campus.{{cite web|url=http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/mdprog/regional_campuses.html|title=Niagara and Waterloo Regional Campuses|work = McMaster University|author=McMaster University|publisher=McMaster University|year=2011|accessdate=15 May 2011}} Those who apply to McMaster's School of Medicine are asked to rank their site choice (Hamilton, Niagara Region, Waterloo Region) from first to third, or no preference. Offers of admission to the medical school are made from a rank list irrespective of geographical preference. Subsequent to filling the positions, registrants to the class are offered a position based on their preference and geographical background. The offers given out by McMaster are bound to the assigned site.

The faculty is also currently affiliated with two major academic hospital systems, Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. Combined, the two faculties operate ten hospitals in the Hamilton area, each used as teaching hospital by the faculty.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcmaster.ca/research/links1.htm|title=Affiliated Health Centres|work=Research@McMaster|publisher=McMaster University|accessdate=24 June 2011}} Norfolk General Hospital is the latest hospital to be affiliated with the faculty, becoming an affiliated teaching hospital with the university in 2009.{{cite web |date=6 November 2009 |title=Norfolk General becomes teaching site |url=http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/news/news_2009/norfork_general_teaching_site.html |accessdate=24 June 2011 |work=Faculty of Health Sciences |publisher=McMaster University}}

In the 2012 Times Higher Education rankings of clinical, pre-clinical, and health universities, the university ranked 16th in the world and 2nd in Canada, behind Mcgill University.{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/subject-ranking/subject/clinical-pre-clinical-health |title=Top 50 Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health Universities |accessdate=3 October 2012 |work=Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012 | publisher=TSL Education Ltd |date= October 2012}} The faculty was placed 82nd in the world and fourth in the country in the U.S. News & World Report university rankings for life sciences and biomedicine.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities/articles/2010/09/21/worlds-best-universities-life-sciences-and-biomedicine-|title=World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine |accessdate=6 May 2011|work=U.S. News & World Report 2010|publisher=U.S. News & World Report|date=21 September 2010}} In the field of clinical medicine and pharmacy, the ARWU in 2010 ranked the program 51st–75th in the world and third in Canada.{{cite web |url=http://www.arwu.org/FieldMED2010.jsp |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy – 2010 |accessdate=28 October 2010 |work=Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010 | publisher=Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |date= August 2010}} In the 2016 Times Higher Education rankings of clinical, pre-clinical, and health universities, the university ranked 27th in the world, and 3rd in Canada, with University of Toronto taking 1st in Canada and 11th in the world, whereas Mcgill University took 2nd in Canada and 20th in the world.{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/subject-ranking/clinical-pre-clinical-health-0#!/page/0/length/25/country/91/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only|title=Top Canadian Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health Universities 2016 |access-date=29 June 2016 |work=Times Higher Education World University Rankings|date=13 October 2015 }}

In 2010, the university was ranked by High Impact Universities 25th out of 500 universities—second in the country—for research performance in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, and health sciences.{{cite web |url=http://www.highimpactuniversities.com/fac3.html |title=2010 Faculty Rankings For Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology, and Health Sciences |accessdate=4 November 2010 |work=High Impact Universities | publisher=High Impact Universities |year= 2010}} For five years in a row, McMaster has ranked second in Canada for biomedical and health care research revenues. In 2008–2009, Faculty investigators were overseeing $133 million a year in research, much of that research conducted by scientists and physicians who teach in the medical school.{{cite web|url=http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/medschool.html|title=Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine|work=McMaster University|publisher=McMaster University|year=2011|accessdate=15 May 2011}} For its 2010 rankings, HEEACT ranked McMaster 26th in the world and second on a national scale for scientific papers in clinical medicine.{{cite web|url=http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2010%20by%20Field/Domain/MED/TOP/100|title=Clinical Medicine-Top 100|work=Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan|publisher=Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan|year=2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715180037/http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2010%20by%20Field/Domain/MED/TOP/100|archive-date=2012-07-15}} The Faculty of Health Sciences operates several research institutes, including the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, and the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute.{{cite web |url=http://farncombe.mcmaster.ca/ |title=Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute |accessdate=28 October 2010 |work=McMaster University | publisher=McMaster University |year= 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://iidr.mcmaster.ca/ |title=Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) |accessdate=28 October 2010 |work=McMaster University | publisher=McMaster University |year= 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/SCCRI/ |title=McMaster Stem Cell Cancer Research Institute |accessdate=28 October 2010 |work=McMaster University |publisher=McMaster University |year=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213210314/http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/SCCRI/ |archive-date=13 December 2010 |url-status=dead }} In November 2010, researchers at the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute turned clumps of human skin into blood cells, which may help alleviate the shortage of blood donors.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/nov/08/skin-cells-blood|title=Skin cells transformed into blood|work=The Guardian|author=Ian Sample|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=8 November 2010}} A portion of Albert Einstein's brain is preserved and held for medical research at the McMaster brain bank. Researchers there have identified differences in his brain that may relate to his genius for spatial and mathematical thinking.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/371698.stm|title=Why size mattered for Einstein |work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|date=18 June 1999}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061014204609/http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/tour.htm Tour of the Faculty of Health Sciences]
• [http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/suppl_1/s10 Evidence Based Medicine - British Medical Journal]

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