As the largest department in the Faculty of Health Sciences, we are acutely aware of our role as an academic and clinical leader. Included in our faculty are some of the most productive researchers in the world, focusing on clinical trials and evidence interpretation that guide the care of patients everywhere. Our culture of inquiry supports our fundamental commitment to evidence-based practice, informed by decades of advanced clinical care. Our core residency training program is nationally recognized for excellence and our subspecialty residency programs, Area of Focused Competence (AFC) programs and fellowship programs provide basic and advanced clinical training for learners across the breadth of internal medicine and its subspecialties. Our educators also provide direct support for our various affiliated schools and departments and the broader McMaster University mission.

Research is core to our success. Spanning the spectrum from basic science (with a particular focus on respiratory disease, gastroenterologic diseases and hematological disorders) through animal, early phase and late phase clinical trials, our faculty generates the evidence that informs medical progress. Working closely with our affiliated institutes and centres, we have an ability to perform late-phase, large clinical trials that are unrivalled in Canada. We have an extensive infrastructure that allows us to develop and use cutting-edge research methodology to summarize, grade and disseminate the cumulative evidence generated by ourselves and others. Finally, the recently launched McMaster University Textbook of Internal Medicine allows us a convenient, free-to-access vehicle through which anyone can access our faculty’s work.

The Department of Medicine takes its commitment to excellence and its position as the clinical, educational, and research leader within the Faculty of Health Sciences and of McMaster University very seriously. The department’s commitment is to maintain and build its excellence while remaining aware of its fortuitous position as the provider of care to South Central Ontario.

Dr. Mark Crowther, Chair of Medicine

The Department of Medicine’s Annual Reports are available online.

Inside, you’ll find stories that reflect the Department’s core strengths: transformative research, innovative teaching and training, and outstanding clinical care delivered in partnership with our hospitals and community. You’ll also read about how our faculty, learners and staff are strengthening equity and inclusion, deepening Indigenous health engagement, and advancing care through data-informed quality improvement. Together, these accomplishments underscore our shared commitment to learning, discovery and service, one patient, one learner and one community at a time.