Missions
The MUHC’s Mission combines clinical care, research and teaching across its seven clinical missions, which are:
- Pediatric Medicine
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Neurosciences
- Women's Health
- Mental Health
- Cancer Care
CLINICAL CARE: The MUHC’s multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professionals provide tertiary and quaternary care to patients from across Quebec and elsewhere. It also provides primary and secondary care and trauma emergency services to adults and children in the Montreal region. The seven clinical missions of the MUHC are: Pediatric Medicine (The Montreal Children’s Hospital), Medicine, Surgery, Neurosciences, Women’s Health, Mental Health, and Oncology.
RESEARCH: The Research Institute of the MUHC is an internationally recognized biomedical and healthcare hospital research centre. The Institute supports over 500 researchers as well as 1,000 graduate and postdoctoral students. It operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research and it produces over 1,400 publications per year.
TEACHING: The MUHC prides itself on the quality and rigour of its clinical and scientific training. Each year, close to 3,000 people train at the MUHC, including 825 medical and surgical residents, 1,075 nurses, 450 medical students and 525 allied-health students. Continuing education programs are also an integral part of providing the best patient care. All physicians at the MUHC are cross-appointed to the McGill University Faculty of Medicine.
