/ All in the family: Our Gatineau campus

In November 2022, Dr. Gilles Brousseau, then Vice-Dean and Director of Campus Outaouais, penned an article reflecting on the launch of the Gatineau Family Medicine Unit in the fall of 1987.

At the time, the Unit occupied one supervision room adjacent to two examining rooms, a waiting room and a director’s office on the first floor of the Gatineau Hospital. The training program began with two residents completing the last six months of their program.

“Little did we know how much medical training in the region would grow,” wrote Dr. Brousseau.

Almost 35 years later, on May 16, 2022, Campus Outaouais was officially inaugurated by McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, in the presence of the Minister of

Higher Education, Danielle McCann, and the MNA for Chapleau, Mathieu Lévesque. The campus and clinical settings will welcome some 150 physicians in training each year.

The result of a longstanding collaboration between McGill and the Centre intégré de santé et des services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais, as well as l’Université du Québec en Outaouais and the Quebec government, the campus marks a major milestone for the region.

It now provides leadership in French-language medical education, contributing to the delivery of quality health care in the region and creating a hub of excellence focused on teaching, research and health care delivery in Outaouais.

In June 2022, several members of our department visited the new Outaouais Campus. We were toured around by Dr. Gilles Brousseau and Dr. Catherine Savard-Woods, Medical Director of the GMF-U de Gatineau.

MARION DOVE (Chair, Family Medicine)

FANNY HERSSON-EDERY (Director, PGME)

CATHERINE JARVIS (Director, Faculty Development)

MYLÈNE ARSENAULT (Assistant Director, Faculty Development)

KATIA FAUSTINI (Director, Clerkship)

LAURIE MUSGRAVE (then Director, LFME)

YVONNE QUAN (then Assistant Director, LFME)

DOMINIQUE ARCHAMBAULT (Director, Distributed Medical Education)