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Our Schools (1829 - present)

Medical graduate group
1829
MEDICINE


McGill's first Faculty was established in 1829. With the renamed Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, it became the School of Medicine in 2020.

Nurse measuring a finger pulse
1920
NURSING


Called the School for Graduate Nurses when it was founded, the name was changed in 1973 to the School of Nursing, and then the Ingram School of Nursing in 2012.

Students manipulate arm of skeleton model
1943
PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Originally the School of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy was added in 1950; in 1951 the School was renamed to reflect the two disciplines.

Students perform hearing test
1963
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS

The School grew out of Canada's first speech therapy clinical service at the Montreal Children's Hospital, established in 1933.

Mosaic of global health
2016
POPULATION AND GLOBAL HEALTH

The School brings together Bioethics; Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health; Global Health; and Health & Social Policy under one umbrella.

Biomedical science students in lab
2020
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Our newest School unites Anatomy & Cell Biology; Biochemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Goodman Cancer Research Centre, Human Genetics; McGill Genome Centre, Microbiology & Immunology; Pharmacology & Therapeutics; and Physiology.

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