Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, Medical education center at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is a medical school at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, housing research labs, classrooms, and clinical simulation centers. The campus sits close to partner teaching hospitals, which are connected to the school's training facilities.
The school was founded in 1965 and welcomed its first students in 1969 with a three-year Doctor of Medicine program, one of very few accelerated medical programs in Canada at the time. That early choice to compress the degree and focus on problem-based learning went on to influence medical education models far beyond Canada.
The school is known for a learning method where students work in small groups around real patient cases from nearby clinics, rather than attending traditional lectures. This approach shapes the daily rhythm of the building, where group rooms and simulation spaces are central to student life.
The McMaster University campus is in Hamilton and easy to reach on foot from the surrounding neighborhood, with the medical school buildings sitting close to the main university facilities. Since this is an active teaching and research site, most areas are not open to the general public.
In 2001 the school developed the Multiple Mini Interview, an admissions process where applicants move through a series of short, structured conversations rather than a single long interview. This model has since been adopted by hundreds of universities around the world and is now a standard way to select medical students.
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