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Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences was the University's first faculty as well as Canada's first faculty of medicine. In 2021, McGill celebrates its Bicentennial, marking the year—1821—it received its Royal Charter allowing it to operate as an institute of higher learning. This was made possible by a merger with the Montreal Medical Institution, which was founded in 1823 by four staff members of the recently-opened Montreal General Hospital. The University and its medical faculty officially began training future physicians in 1829. In 1833, the Faculty awarded its first degree to William Leslie Logie, who became McGill's first graduate and the first physician trained on Canadian soil.

In 2020, the Faculty changed its name from the Faculty of Medicine to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, to better reflect its expanded scope, encompassing a range of health professions as well as population and global health and biomedical research. Today, the Faculty consists of six schools: the School of Medicine; the Ingram School of Nursing; the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy; the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders; the School of Population and Global Health; and the School of Biomedical Sciences. Also in 2020, the Faculty welcomed its inaugural cohort of undergraduate medical students who will train at McGill’s Campus Outaouais. In the same year, it launched the McGill-UQO Medical Preparatory Program in the region, together with the Faculty of Science and the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). Outaouais is part of the Réseau Universitaire Intégré de Santé et Services Sociaux McGill (RUISSS McGill). McGill postgraduate medical students (residents) have been training in Gatineau since 1988.