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<\/a>Brock and McMaster universities extended their partnership on Wednesday, Jan. 8. Pictured in the front row are Dean and Vice-President of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University Paul O\u2019Byrne (left) and Brock University President Gervan Fearon. Back row from left are Assistant Dean of McMaster\u2019s Niagara Regional Campus Amanda Bell, McMaster student Ali Beydoun, Brock student Aaron Wexler and Brock Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Dean Peter Tiidus.<\/p><\/div>\n
McMaster\u2019s Niagara Regional Campus of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is located in the Roy & Lois Cairns Health & Bioscience Research Complex on Brock\u2019s main St. Catharines campus.<\/p>\n
More than a renewal agreement, the signing marked a commitment to expand the academic collaboration between the two institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a unique partnership between two universities,\u201d said O\u2019Byrne. \u201cNot only are we sharing space on the Brock campus, but we also share learning resources as well as collaborations in teaching and research and in exploring health career pathways.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 9,000-square-foot McMaster campus is currently the educational home for 84 undergraduate medical students and 26 medical residents who are doing their clinical and specialty training at Niagara Health.<\/p>\n
Since moving to Brock from the former St. Catharines General Hospital in 2012, the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine has graduated 208 medical students, 80 family medicine residents, seven emergency medicine residents and two general surgery residents. More than 60 of them have stayed in Niagara to practise.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrock University holds as a key priority the contributions it makes to enriching and strengthening communities across the Niagara region,\u201d said Fearon. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to imagine a more important way of impacting peoples\u2019 lives than by helping improve their health care, including the training of health professionals right here in Niagara. Brock is pleased that our partnership with McMaster University facilitates us in making this contribution, as well as establishing a new scope for building on our shared successes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tiidus said the partnership is a benefit to Brock students because they are able to access McMaster\u2019s anatomy lab and other resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe unparalleled access by our undergraduate students to the McMaster human anatomy facilities, coupled with our other extensive and hi-tech anatomy teaching facilities makes our anatomy instruction and student learning experience among the very best in Canada,\u201d he said, adding that several students from Brock\u2019s Medical Sciences program have continued their journey toward becoming physicians through McMaster\u2019s Niagara campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an enriched environment,\u201d said Bell.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past, our collaboration has included both joint clinical and international health learning opportunities as well as joint research projects. We\u2019re looking forward to future partnerships between our programs on issues such as the health of marginalized populations, and on joint symposia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate the opportunity of our medical students to feel part of the university community life here; it\u2019s a beautiful campus,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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