mcgill university senate report of the academic policy

500th Report to Senate /October 21st, 2020 – D 20-07

500th REPORT OF THE ACADEMIC POLICY COMMITTEE TO SENATE

on the APC meeting held on October 15th, 2020

I. TO BE APPROVED BY SENATE

(A) NEW TEACHING PROGRAMS REQUIRING SENATE APPROVAL

School of Continuing Studies

Certificate in Applied Cybersecurity (30 cr.) – appendix A

At a meeting on October 15th, 2020, APC reviewed and approved a proposal from the School of

Continuing Studies to create a new Certificate in Applied Cybersecurity (30 cr.). As our daily lives

rely more and more on digital technology, global cybercrime also increases, and there is a strong

commitment from the government of Canada to improve cybersecurity, whether through research

or skills development. It is forecasted that the demand for qualified professionals will keep

growing in the coming years across all industries. This new Certificate will provide theoretical and

practical training to graduates who will acquire the necessary expertise in IT networking and

secure network infrastructures to address the needs for well-educated cybersecurity professionals

in both the private and public sectors.

Be it resolved that Senate approve the creation of the proposed Certificate in Applied

Cybersecurity (30 cr.).

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Graduate Certificate in Nurse Practitioner – Adult Care (21 cr.) – appendix B

Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner – Adult Care (30 cr.) – appendix C

At a meeting on October 15th, 2020, APC reviewed and approved a proposal from the Ingram

School of Nursing to create a Graduate Certificate in Nurse Practitioner – Adult Care (21 cr.) and a

Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner – Adult Care (30 cr.). The Graduate Diploma is to be

taken concurrently with the M.Sc.(A) in Nurse Practitioner; Non-Thesis – Adult Care by students

entering the program with a Bachelor’s in Nursing Degree, and concurrently with the proposed

Graduate Certificate by students entering the program with a Master’s in Nursing degree. Both

pathways are designed for students to acquire the necessary entry to practice knowledge and skills

as requested by the Professional Order (OIIQ). The creation of these two programs is in line with

the goal of the government of Quebec to have 2000 nurse practitioners throughout the province by

2024-2025, and will enhance the existing training offerings for Nurse Practitioners in the Ingram

School of Nursing

Be it resolved that Senate approve the creation of the proposed Graduate Certificate in Nurse

Practitioner – Adult care (21 cr.) and the Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner – Adult

Care (30 cr.).

Report of the

Academic Policy Committee D20-07

McGILL UNIVERSITY SENATE

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(B) ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ISSUES / POLICIES / GOVERNANCE/AWARDS – none

(C) CREATION OF NEW UNITS / NAME CHANGES / REPORTING CHANGES

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Creation of a Department of Critical Care Medicine – appendix D

At a meeting on October 15th, 2020, APC reviewed and approved a proposal to create a

Department of Critical Care Medicine within the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

While there are currently two hospital programs in Critical Care Medicine in the McGill

University hospital network, Critical Care Specialists are primarily appointed in either Medicine,

Surgery or Anesthesiology. As the field of Critical Care Medicine has drastically evolved in the

past decades, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences considers that it is nowadays crucial to

create an official administrative structure for the discipline and to provide a home for teaching and

research activities in Critical Care Medicine. The proposal for the Department of Critical Care

Medicine has been elaborated after extensive consultations, and will allow the University to

position itself as a global leader in the study and the care of critical illness.

Be it resolved that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors for approval the

creation of a Department of Critical Care Medicine within the McGill Faculty of Medicine and

Health Sciences.

Renaming of the McGill AIDS Centre to the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases– appendix E

At a meeting on October 15th, 2020, APC reviewed and approved a proposal to rename the McGill

AIDS Centre to the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases (MCVD). The McGill AIDS Centre was

founded in 1990 when HIV/AIDS was still a relatively unknown disease, and has, under the

leadership of Prof. Mark Wainberg, greatly contributed to the research and development of

treatment and clinical management plans of the disease. As its expertise in the study and treatment

of viral diseases is significant, and as other diseases such as Zika or COVID-19 have emerged

worldwide, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is therefore choosing to expand its

mandate and to transform it into the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases. The MCVD will position

McGill as a global leader in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of viral diseases.

Be it resolved that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors for approval

the renaming of the McGill AIDS Centre to the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases (MCVD).

Renaming of the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre to the McGill

Genome Centre – appendix F

At a meeting on October 15th, 2020, APC reviewed and approved a proposal to rename the McGill

University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre to the McGill Genome Centre (MGC), to

reflect the end of the partnership with Genome Quebec (effective as of April 1st, 2020).

Be it resolved that Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors for approval the

renaming of the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre to the McGill

Genome Centre (MGC).

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(D) CHANGES IN DEGREE DESIGNATION – none

(E) INTER-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS – none

(F) OTHER - none

II. TO BE ENDORSED BY SENATE / PRESENTED TO SENATE FOR DISCUSSION – none

III. APPROVED BY APC IN THE NAME OF SENATE

(A) DEFINITIONS – none

(B) STUDENT EXCHANGE PARTNERSHIPS / CONTRACTS / INTERUNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS - none

(C) OTHER – none

IV. FOR THE INFORMATION OF SENATE

A) ACADEMIC UNIT REVIEWS - none

B) APPROVAL OF COURSES AND TEACHING PROGRAMS

1. Programs

a) APC Approvals (new options/concentrations and major revisions to existing programs)

i. New Programs - none

ii. Major Revisions of Existing Programs - none

b) APC Subcommittee on Courses and Teaching Programs (SCTP) Approvals

(Summary Reports: http://www.mcgill.ca/sctp/documents/)

i. Moderate and Minor Program Revisions

Approved by SCTP on September 10th, 2020 and reported to APC on October 15th, 2020

Faculty of Engineering

B.Eng.; Co-op in Software Engineering (141-144 cr.)


Faculty of Science

B.Sc.; Major in Biology (58-59 cr.)

B.Sc.; Liberal Program – Core Science Component in Biology (45-47 cr.)

B.A. & Sc.; Major Concentration in Biology (36 cr.)

ii. Program Retirements


Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies


M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering; Computational Science and Engineering (47 cr.)

http://www.mcgill.ca/sctp/documents/

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Faculty of Science

B.A. & Sc.; Major Concentration in Biology; Cell/Molecular (36 cr.)

B.A. & Sc.; Major Concentration in Biology; Organismal (36-37 cr.)

Approved by SCTP on October 8th, 2020 and reported to APC on October 15th, 2020

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies


M.Eng. in Civil Engineering (45 cr.)

M.Eng. in Materials Engineering (45 cr.)

M.Eng in Mining Engineering (45 cr.)

2. Courses

a) New Courses

Reported as having been approved by SCTP on September 10th, 2020: 8

Faculty of Arts: 2

School of Continuing Studies: 6


Faculty of Science: 2

Reported as having been approved by SCTP on October8th, 2020: 12

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences: 9


b) Course Revisions


Faculty of Engineering: 3


Reported as having been approved by SCTP on September 24th, 2020:15


c) Course Retirements

Reported as having been approved by SCTP on September 24th, 2020:29

Faculty of Engineering: 29

Reported as having been approved by SCTP on October 8th, 2020: 2

School of Continuing Studies: 2

D20-07 - Appendix A

APC approved Oct 15, 2020

APC APPENDIX A

P1-1

New Program/Concentration Proposal Form

(2019)

4.0 Rationale and Admission Requirements for New Program/Concentration

6.0 Total Credits or CEUs (if latter, indicate “CEUs” in box) 7.0 Consultation with Related Units Yes X No

Financial Consult X Yes No

Attach list of consultations.

1.0 Degree Title Please specify the two degrees for concurrent degree programs

2.0 Administering Faculty or GPS

1.1 Major (Subject/Discipline) (30-char. max.) Offering Faculty & Department

1.2 Concentration (Option) (30 char. max.) 3.0 Effective Term of Implementation (Ex. Sept. 2019 or 201909) Term

1.3 Complete Program Title (info from boxes 1.0+1.1+1.2+5.2)

5.0 Program Information Indicate an “x” as appropriate

5.1 Program Type

Bachelor’s Program

Master’s

M.Sc.(Applied) Program

Dual Degree/Concurrent Program

Certificate

Diploma

X Graduate Certificate

Graduate Diploma

Professional Development Cert

Ph.D. Program

Doctorate Program

(Other than Ph.D.)

Self-Funded/Private Program

Off-Campus Program

Distance Education Program

Other (Please specify)

5.2 Category

Faculty Program (FP)

Major

Joint Major

Major Concentration (CON)

Minor

Minor Concentration (CON)

Honours (HON)

Joint Honours Component (HC)

Internship/Co-op

Thesis (T)

Non-Thesis (N)

Other

Please specify

5.3 Level

Undergraduate

Dentistry/Law/Medicine

Continuing Studies (Non-Credit)

Collegial

X Masters & Grad Dips & Certs

Doctorate

Post-Graduate Medicine/Dentistry

Graduate Qualifying

5.4 Requires Centrally-Funded

Resources

Yes _X__ No ___

Graduate Certificate

Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care

GPS

Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences/Ingram School of Nursing

The Graduate Certificate Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care is designed specifically for students entering the Adult Care Nurse Practitioner concentration already having completed a Master’s of Nursing. The courses offered in this certificate bridge the gap for fulfilling the requirements for entry-to-practice as an Adult Care NP. This Graduate Certificate is taken concurrently with the Graduate Diploma Nurse Practitioner Adult Care. The admission requirements for this Graduate Certificate are: a Master’s degree in Nursing (comparable to those offered at McGill) ; a minimum GPA of 3.2 on a scale of 4.0 in previous nursing studies; and 3360 hours of nursing experience in the specialty (i.e. acute adult care). Please see the Executive Summary document for additional information.

21 credits

September 2022

Graduate Certificate in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care

D20-07 - Appendix B

New Program/Concentration Proposal Form P1-2

8.0 Program Description (Maximum 150 words)

9.0 List of proposed new Program/Concentration

If new concentration (option) of existing program, a program layout (list of all courses) of existing program must be attached.

Proposed program (list courses as follows: Subj Code/Crse Num, Title, Credit Weight under the headings of: Required Courses, Complementary Courses, Elective Courses)

The Graduate Certificate in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care is taken concurrently with the Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care by students entering the program with a Master’s of Nursing. This course of study is designed to prepare students to assume the full scope of Adult Care Nurse Practitioner practice. Adult Care Nurse practitioners provide advanced practice, including advanced-practice nursing care to the adult population with complex acute, chronic or critical health issues, requiring secondary and tertiary line of care. The program is built on a foundation of Strengths-Based Nursing care of individuals, families and communities.

Graduate Certificate (Gr. Cert.) in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care (21 credits)

Required Courses (21 credits)

NUR2 648 Advanced Adult Health Assessment (6 credits) NUR2 657 Adult Care Internship 1 (13 credits) NUR2 689 Clinical Seminar (2 credits)

[see attached for existing Graduate Certificates offered by the Ingram School of Nursing]

Attach extra page(s) as needed

Existing Graduate Certificates offered by the Ingram School of Nursing:

Graduate Certificate (Gr. Cert.) Theory in Mental Health (15 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: C-TMH

Program Requirements

The Graduate Certificate in Theory in Mental Health prepares students to acquire the theoretical knowledge required to

subsequently complete clinical courses in the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. This program is

designed for students who previously completed a master's degree in nursing (equivalent to the McGill M.Sc.A in a

nursing program) but have not completed any nurse practitioner theory or clinical courses. Students should complete 6-12

credits in preparatory theory courses prior to entry into the Graduate Certificate program (the specific number of

preparatory courses required will depend on courses completed during their master's degree). Students should consult with

the program Academic Adviser prior to applying.


NUR2 647 Pharmacology for Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (3 credits)

NUR2 692 Reasoning in Mental Health 3 (4 credits)



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Graduate Certificate (Gr. Cert.) Theory in Neonatology (15 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: Graduate Certificate in Nursing



NUR2 660 Reasoning in Neonatology 1 (6 credits)

NUR2 661 Reasoning in Neonatology 2 (6 credits)

NUR2 664 Neonatal Health Assessment (3 credits)

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Graduate Certificate (Gr. Cert.) Theory in Pediatrics (15 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: C-TPED


The Graduate Certificate in Theory in Pediatrics prepares students to acquire the theoretical knowledge required to

subsequently complete clinical courses in the Graduate Diploma in Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. This program is designed

for students who previously completed a master's degree in nursing (equivalent to the McGill M.Sc.A in a nursing

program) but have not completed any nurse practitioner theory or clinical courses. Students should complete 6-12 credits

in preparatory theory courses prior to entry into the Graduate Certificate program (the specific number of preparatory

courses required will depend on courses completed during their master's degree). Students should consult with the

program Academic Adviser prior to applying.


NUR2 645 Pharmacology for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (3 credits)

NUR2 682 Reasoning in Pediatrics 3 (4 credits)



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Existing Graduate Certificates offered by the Ingram School of Nursing: [continued]

Graduate Certificate (Gr. Cert.) Theory in Primary Care (15 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: Graduate Certificate in Nursing


The Graduate Certificate in Theory in Primary Care prepares students to acquire the theoretical knowledge required to

subsequently complete clinical courses in the Graduate Diploma in Primary Care. This program is designed for students

who previously completed a master's degree in nursing (equivalent to the McGill M.Sc.(A) in nursing program) but have

not completed any nurse practitioner theory or clinical courses. Students will need to complete 6-12 credits in preparatory

theory courses prior to entry into the Graduate Certificate program (the specific number of preparatory courses required

will depend on whether some of the required courses were completed in their master's degree). Students should consult

with the program Academic Adviser prior to applying.


NUR2 646 Pharmacology for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners (3 credits)

NUR2 672 Reasoning in Primary Care 3 (4 credits)




REMINDERS: *Box 5.4 – Must be completed; see section 6.5.4 within the New Program Guidelines at:https://www.mcgill.ca/sctp/guidelines. **All new program proposals must be accompanied by a 2-3 page support document.

10.0 Approvals

Routing Sequence Name Signature Meeting Date

Department

Curric/Acad Committee

Faculty 1

Faculty 2

Faculty 3

CGPS

SCTP

APC

Senate

Submitted by

Name

Phone

Email

Submission Date

To be completed by ES:

CIP Code

Cindy Smith, Secretary to SCTP

Feb. 25, 2020

March 10, 2020

May 25, 2020

October 8, 2020

Jacqueline Courtney

514-398-8538

[email protected]

February 25, 2020/ Revised May 15 2020


https://www.mcgill.ca/sctp/guidelines

APC APPENDIX B

P1-1

New Program/Concentration Proposal Form

(2019)

4.0 Rationale and Admission Requirements for New Program/Concentration

6.0 Total Credits or CEUs (if latter, indicate “CEUs” in box) 7.0 Consultation with Related Units Yes No X

Financial Consult Yes X No

Attach list of consultations.

1.0 Degree Title Please specify the two degrees for concurrent degree programs

2.0 Administering Faculty or GPS

1.1 Major (Subject/Discipline) (30-char. max.) Offering Faculty & Department

1.2 Concentration (Option) (30 char. max.) 3.0 Effective Term of Implementation (Ex. Sept. 2019 or 201909) Term

1.3 Complete Program Title (info from boxes 1.0+1.1+1.2+5.2)

5.0 Program Information Indicate an “x” as appropriate

5.1 Program Type

Bachelor’s Program

Master’s

M.Sc.(Applied) Program

Dual Degree/Concurrent Program

Certificate

Diploma

Graduate Certificate

X Graduate Diploma

Professional Development Cert

Ph.D. Program

Doctorate Program

(Other than Ph.D.)

Self-Funded/Private Program

Off-Campus Program

Distance Education Program

Other (Please specify)

5.2 Category

Faculty Program (FP)

Major

Joint Major

Major Concentration (CON)

Minor

Minor Concentration (CON)

Honours (HON)

Joint Honours Component (HC)

Internship/Co-op

Thesis (T)

Non-Thesis (N)

Other

Please specify

5.3 Level

Undergraduate

Dentistry/Law/Medicine

Continuing Studies (Non-Credit)

Collegial

X Masters & Grad Dips & Certs

Doctorate

Post-Graduate Medicine/Dentistry

Graduate Qualifying

5.4 Requires Centrally-Funded

Resources

Yes _X_ No ___

Graduate Diploma

Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care

GPS

Medicine and Health Sciences/Ingram School of Nursing

The Graduate Diploma complements the Master of Science(Applied) in Nurse Practitioner; Non-Thesis - Adult Care concentration and fulfills the requirements for entry-to-practice as an Adult Care NP as per the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ). The Graduate Diploma and the MSc(A) are taken concurrently by students entering the program with a Bachelor’s Degree. Students entering the program already having completed a Master’s in nursing degree take the Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care concurrently. The admission requirements for this concentration are the same as those for our existing NP programs: a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Nursing (comparable to those offered at McGill); a minimum GPA of 3.2 on a scale of 4.0 in previous nursing studies; and 3360 hours of nursing exper ience in the specialty (i.e. acute adult care). Please see the Executive Summary document for additional information.

30 Credits

January 2022

Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care

D20-07 - Appendix C


8.0 Program Description (Maximum 150 words)

9.0 List of proposed new Program/Concentration

If new concentration (option) of existing program, a program layout (list of all courses) of existing program must be attached.

Proposed program (list courses as follows: Subj Code/Crse Num, Title, Credit Weight under the headings of: Required Courses, Complementary Courses, Elective Courses)

The Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care is taken concurrently with the M.Sc.(A.) in Nurse Practitioner; Non-Thesis - Adult Care by students entering the program with a Bachelor’s in Nursing Degree and is taken concurrently with the Graduate Certificate in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care by students entering the program with a Master’s in Nursing degree. This course of study is designed to prepare students to assume the full scope of Adult Care Nurse Practitioner practice. Adult Care Nurse practitioners provide advanced practice, including advanced-practice nursing care to the adult population with complex acute, chronic or critical health issues, requiring secondary and tertiary line of care. The program uses a case/inquiry-based pedagogy to develop advanced knowledge and skills in history taking, health assessment, diagnostic testing, developing clinical impressions and treatment plans (including medication prescription), and evaluating outcomes of care.

Graduate Diploma (Grad. Dip.) in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care (30 credits)


NUR2 658 Adult Care Internship 2 (11 credits) NUR2 677 Reasoning in Adult Care 1 (3 credits) NUR2 678 Reasoning in Adult Care 2 (4 credits) NUR2 687 Reasoning in Adult Care 3 (6 credits) NUR2 688 Reasoning in Adult Care 4 (6 credits)

[see attached for existing Gradudte Diplomas offered by the Ingram School of Nursing]

Attach extra page(s) as needed

Existing Graduate Diplomas offered by the Ingram School of Nursing:

Graduate Diploma (Gr. Dip.) Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (30 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: D-MHNP


Delineates a clinical course of study in mental health as a nurse practitioner, building on theoretical preparation in either a

master's or a certificate program.


NUR2 655 Mental Health Internship 1 (8 credits)

NUR2 656 Mental Health Internship 2 (14 credits)



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Graduate Diploma (Gr. Dip.) Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (30 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: Graduate Diploma in Nursing



NUR2 649 Neonatology Internship 1 (12 credits)

NUR2 650 Neonatology Internship 2 (12 credits)

NUR2 666 Neonatal Follow-Up Internship (6 credits)

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Graduate Diploma (Gr. Dip.) Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (30 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: D-PDNP


Delineates a clinical course of study in mental health as a nurse practitioner, building on theoretical preparation in either a

master's or a certificate program.


NUR2 653 Pediatric Internship 1 (8 credits)

NUR2 654 Pediatric Internship 2 (14 credits)


NUR2 686 Pediatric Assessment (4 credits)

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Graduate Diploma (Gr. Dip.) Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (30 credits)

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing Degree: Graduate Diploma in Nursing


Delineates a clinical course of study in primary care as a nurse practitioner that builds on theoretical preparation in either

a master's or certificate program.


NUR2 651 Primary Care Internship 1 (8 credits)

NUR2 652 Primary Care Internship 2 (14 credits)


NUR2 676 Primary Care Assessment (4 credits)


REMINDERS: *Box 5.4 – Must be completed; see section 6.5.4 within the New Program Guidelines at:https://www.mcgill.ca/sctp/guidelines. **All new program proposals must be accompanied by a 2-3 page support document.

10.0 Approvals

Routing Sequence Name Signature Meeting Date

Department

Curric/Acad Committee

Faculty 1

Faculty 2

Faculty 3

CGPS

SCTP

APC

Senate

Submitted by

Name

Phone

Email

Submission Date

To be completed by ES:

CIP Code

Cindy Smith, Secretary to SCTP

Feb. 25, 2020

March 10, 2020

May 25, 2020

October 8, 2020

Jacqueline Courtney

514-398-8538

[email protected]

Feb. 25, 2020/ Revised May 15 2020


https://www.mcgill.ca/sctp/guidelines

Proposal for the Department of Critical Care Medicine, McGill University

Peter Goldberg, Head, Critical Care Program, McGill University Health Center

Paul Warshawsky, Head, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Jewish General Hospital

October 2020

D20-07 - Appendix D

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Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 3

Standing Committees ...................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

Executive Committee ................................................................................................................................................ 9

Clinical Practice Committee .................................................................................................................................. 9

Research Committee ............................................................................................................................................ 9

Education Committee ........................................................................................................................................... 9

Innovation Committee ........................................................................................................................................ 10

Governance Structure……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...9

Faculty Members......................................................................................................................................................... 10

Process for becoming a Member ............................................................................................................................ 10

Financial Resources: Available and Required and Growth of the Department ........................................................... 11

Concluding Remarks .................................................................................................................................................... 11

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Proposal for the Department of Critical Care Medicine, McGill University

Introduction

The purpose of this document is to request the establishment of a Department of Critical Care Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University. A description of the process leading to this proposal, a rationale for the establishment of a department, a listing of the academic staff implicated, its budgetary implications, and supporting documentation follow. In this document, we propose the name of the department, method by which its chairperson is chosen, its standing committees, its budgetary considerations, and its faculty membership.

Name of the Proposed Department Department of Critical Care Medicine Name of the Proposed Chair To be chosen as per Faculty of Medicine regulations

Administrative and Consultative Process:

The provision of care to the critically ill, research into the pathophysiology and treatment of critical illness, and

the instruction of medical students, residents, and fellows in Critical Care Medicine within the McGill network

are the responsibility of members of the programs of Critical Care Medicine at the McGill University Health

Center (MUHC), the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), the attending staff of the intensive care units of the Montreal

Neurological Hospital (MNH) and St. Mary’s Hospital. These hospital programs and the intensive care unit of the

MNH bring together academics who are Royal College approved specialists in Critical Care Medicine but whose

primary faculty appointments, at both the hospital and university, are in their primary departments of Medicine,

Surgery, and Anesthesiology, as there is, at the moment, no academic equivalent to the clinical structure. For

example, the St. Mary’s Hospital ICU is staffed by Family Medicine physicians with supplemental training in

Critical Care Medicine.

In 2007, at the behest of the then Director of Professional Services at the MUHC, an external review of critical

care at that institution was carried out. Amongst several recommendations, it urged that both a hospital

department of Critical Care Medicine and an academic department within the Faculty of Medicine and Health

Sciences be established. Over the subsequent five years and following consultations within the MUHC with the

various stakeholders, a hospital department of Critical Care Medicine was established in 2012. At the JGH, a

Department of Adult Critical Care Medicine had been established in 1999.

Over the past several years, numerous conversations with the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health

Sciences have been held over the advisability of creating a Department of Critical Care Medicine. In October

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2016, Drs. Peter Goldberg and Paul Warshawsky, respectively the heads of the clinical departments of Critical

Care Medicine at the MUHC and JGH, submitted a document to the Dean of Medicine, formally proposing that

an academic department of Critical Care Medicine be established within the Faculty of Medicine. In response to

that request, the Dean commissioned an external review to advise the Faculty on the appropriateness of that

proposal. That review, completed and submitted by Dr. Noel Gibney of the University of Alberta, Edmonton in

May, 2017, formally recommended to the Dean that a Department of Critical Care Medicine be established

within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill.

Unfortunately, the process was upended in early 2018 in response to Bill 130: An Act to amend certain provisions

regarding the clinical organization and management of health and social services institutions that had been

passed by the Assemblé nationale the previous October. Bill 130 prescribed that only specific clinical hospital

departments could be established and Critical Care Medicine was not amongst those cited. Given the

asynchrony that would then emerge between hospital and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, it was

decided not to proceed with the application for departmental status until further clarification.

That clarification started to emerge when the MUHC Board of Directors passed a proposal to establish the

Critical Care Program with responsibilities and privileges identical to those that had been granted to the

Department of Critical Care Medicine in 2012 but which had been dissolved by Bill 130. At the JGH, the Director

General signaled his intention to recommend the same process to its Board of Directors. In August 2019, with

the real possibility that an academic department could now be mirrored at the hospital by a like-structure and

in response to fundamental reporting issues cited in the recent Royal College review it was decided to re-present

the application for department status to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The consultation process relating to the advisability of creating a department of Critical Care Medicine has been

extensive. The Chiefs of Medicine, Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Emergency Medicine at both the MUHC and

JGH were solicited for their advice as was the Associate Dean for Post-Graduate Medical Education (PGME).

Letters of endorsement are appended to this submission. On October 23, 2019 the Committee for Medical

Education Governance in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences approved the submission of a proposal

for a department of Critical Care Medicine. On September 21, 2020 this proposal was presented and approved

at the Faculty’s Deanery Executive Committee and subsequently ratified at Faculty Council on September 22,

2020.

Background:

Presently, within the McGill hospital network, there are two hospital programs of Critical Care Medicine, one at

the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) (Royal Victoria and Montreal General Hospitals) and one at the

Jewish General Hospital (JGH). The intensive care unit at the Montreal Neurological Hospital (MNH) has been,

until recently, under the umbrella of the Neuroscience mission. In keeping with the Canadian model, all are

multidisciplinary. Meaning, their faculty members are specialists in Critical Care Medicine, however, have their

primary appointments in their respective base specialties of medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology. The

intensive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital is staffed by Family Medicine physicians who have undergone

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additional training in Critical Care Medicine and report to both the Departments of Medicine and Family

Medicine.

Critical Care Medicine has changed dramatically over the past fifty to sixty years and has evolved to encompass

a particular field of inquiry with its own unique clinical and research questions and educational objectives,

academic societies, scientific journals, and a specific Royal College approved training program.

The evolution at McGill has been more uneven. While the clinical needs of critically ill patients had been well

served by the individual department-based intensive care units in each of the hospitals, teaching in the field had

been confined to that which took place during residency rotations in the intensive care units while research,

scattered across the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, managed to establish a beachhead, if only

temporarily, in the Division of Critical Care Medicine of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Victoria

Hospital.

When the cross-departmental Department of Critical Care Medicine was established by the MUHC in 2012 it

decided to adopt an unambiguously academic profile building on the academic legacy it inherited, in part, from

its forebears in the aforementioned Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Meakins-Christie Laboratories.

The department has many of the characteristics of a clinical academic entity with an internal taxation structure

understood by physicians as a practice plan, to foster and support education and research, scheduled research

rounds, a self-financed fellowship in critical care research, and robust clinical and fundamental research

programs. However this structure has been a choice and is by no means a responsibility or an obligation of this

hospital department. And therein lies the threat for sustainability of these initiatives.

Without a faculty structure and its attendant academic responsibilities, Critical Care Medicine will continue to

be dependent on the vagaries of leadership, both within and without the department, as to whether it will be

able to continue and pursue academic ambitions such as teaching and research. Given the present structure,

any future leadership, chosen as it will be to lead a hospital department concerned primarily with operational

issues, may choose to forego or marginalize that academic mission as a defining characteristic. As importantly,

the hospital administration, concerned as it is with those very same operational issues, could well request, as it

has done in the recent past, those academic interests be sidelined in the name of operational exigencies.

Without the academic shield provided by a distinct Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences departmental

structure the academic future of Critical Care Medicine at McGill will be placed at considerable risk.

Over the past ten to fifteen years, most of the leading centers in the field of Critical Care Medicine throughout

the western world have moved from their preoccupation with bedside care to include ambitious research

initiatives, both clinical and fundamental. McGill University, with its research-intensive tradition, should be in

the forefront helping to lead this evolution. In his report, Dr. Gibney suggests that the Faculty now has a unique

opportunity to recruit an internationally recognized academic in Critical Care Medicine to head a newly

established department. However, without an academic structure, it will be highly unlikely that McGill will be

successful in recruiting such an individual. Critical Care Medicine at McGill sits presently at a crucial crossroad.

It has the opportunity, given its heritage and talent, to leap into the forefront of Critical Care Medicine

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worldwide but the University should not miss this opportunity to support the Faculty of Medicine and Health

Sciences in its willingness to provide the tools, infrastructure, and foremost its imprimatur with which the former

can thrive to become an international center for the study of and practice in the care of the critically ill.

Research and Recruitment:

While it is likely true that research has become more programmatic and structured within hospital research

institutes we do not believe that the importance of departmental leadership can be overestimated in terms of

its impact on the enthusiasm and emphasis research assumes within individual departments. Furthermore,

whereas research in critical illness has been performed for years at McGill, albeit under various guises, a

Department of Critical Care Medicine and its chair would be in a position to coherently represent those

researchers, clinical and fundamental, both internally within the University and hospital research institute, and

externally at such granting agencies as the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQS) and the Canadian

Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and to advocate more broadly for the study of critical care. This, we believe,

will be fundamental to the future success of critical care research both in Quebec and Canada. And while McGill

would not be the first in establishing a department of critical care in a Faculty of Medicine it would likely be

amongst the most impactful in this regard given its long tradition of being both a research-intensive university

and faculty.

Recruitment to Critical Care Medicine in the absence of a department structure has proven to be quite daunting.

Firstly, there is no department chair within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to champion a particular

recruit or, for that matter, to lobby on behalf of Critical Care Medicine itself. Secondly, and this is fundamental,

that recruitment, once undertaken, can only proceed through the candidate’s primary specialty even if his/her

clinical and academic pursuits are to lie strictly within the field of Critical Care Medicine. The implications of the

latter are significant. A department such as Anesthesiology, for example, may be petitioned to support a recruit

to Critical Care Medicine despite the likelihood that the recruit will not contribute whatsoever to the clinical or

academic life of Anesthesiology.

If this department structure was not sufficiently inimical to recruitment, the failure of the Ministère de la Santé

et des Services Sociaux (MSSS) to include Critical Care Medicine in the Programme des effectifs médicaux (PEM)

has made the process even more challenging. This provincial medical human resources plan effectively limits

recruitment by assigning a finite number of staff positions for each specialty to each hospital center in the

province. To date, Quebec has refused to assign any PEM positions to the specialty. The implications of this

deficiency are several-fold but in the context of recruitment, it forces those primary specialties through which

the Critical Care Medicine physician must be recruited to choose between assigning one of its preciously limited

PEM positions to meet their own particular clinical and academic demands or to lend it to Critical Care Medicine.

For example, in the case of anesthesiology, its chair would need to decide between ensuring that an adequate

number of anesthesiologists be available to staff the operating rooms or granting that PEM position to another

anesthesiologist who is to use that PEM position to work, not in the operating theatre, but rather in the intensive

care unit. While it is clear to us that departmental status will not in and of itself eliminate this barrier, we do

believe that the present lack of departmental status for Critical Care Medicine throughout the province of

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Quebec compromises its credibility at the MSSS in any discussions concerning the PEM program. The first step

in gaining that credibility is to establish the Department of Critical Care Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine

and Health Sciences.

Academic promotion is fundamental to the well-being of an academic community and of vital importance to

both the staff and university. Presently, members of Critical Care Medicine depend on evaluations performed

by the chairs of their respective primary specialties for their academic promotion. Because the evaluative

process is a strictly academic exercise overseen by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the heads of

the departments of Critical Care Medicine (hospital appointments) have little say whatsoever in those

evaluations and ultimate decisions on academic promotion despite the considerable time spent by these faculty

members in Critical Care Medicine. Neither are the resident evaluations of Critical Care Medicine faculty

members shared with the clinical department heads. This obvious deficiency was critiqued by the recent internal

review of the Royal College training program in Critical Care Medicine. A Department of Critical Care Medicine

would share in that evaluative process rendering a more realistic portrayal of the faculty member’s

performance, on the one hand, and helping, on the other, to persuade faculty that one’s contribution to the

academic and clinical pursuits within Critical Care Medicine would be instrumental in his/her academic

advancement.

The two departments of Critical Care Medicine and the intensive care units at the MNH and St. Mary’s Hospital

are responsible each year for the clinical education of more than two hundred residents from the various

residency programs at McGill who require training in intensive care medicine to meet the Royal College

requirements in their respective specialties. Each rotating resident reports to his/her training program director

who, in turn, reports to the Associate Dean, PGME. There is, under the present structure, no mechanism for the

Associate Dean to communicate his/her concerns about the nature of that training to those responsible within

Critical Care Medicine. This deficiency was made starkly apparent in Dr. Gibney’s report which cited concerns

expressed to him by the Associate Dean, PGME regarding that training, concerns which had never been

previously expressed to those responsible for that resident training and, more recently, by the absence of the

appropriate structure necessary to communicate the recent Royal College review of Internal Medicine to those

responsible for training of its residents in critical care. Creation of a department of Critical Care Medicine will

surely facilitate those lines of communication between those responsible for the education of rotating residents

in the care of the critically ill and those overseeing its quality.

Additionally, the MUHC, JGH, and MNH are responsible for the training of residents in a Royal College approved

training program in Critical Care Medicine. That training program is overseen by a program director who is a

faculty member of Critical Care Medicine and by the Associate Dean, PGME. Given the lack of departmental

status, the academic head for that program has been, by convention, the chair of the Department of Medicine,

who has traditionally assigned that responsibility to the clinical head of the MUHC Department of Critical Care

Medicine. In this regard, the pedagogical evaluations of the residents in this program are not shared with the

clinical department heads. This represents a fundamental shortcoming within the present structure and would

be resolved by establishing a Department of Critical Care Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine and Health

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Sciences which would then resemble the other training programs at McGill which, while responsible for

guaranteeing the integrity and excellence of their training have, at the same time, the structures in place to do

so.

It is apparent from the residents rotating for the first time in the intensive care units that their undergraduate

medical curriculum is, for the most part, devoid of instruction in critical illness and in the integrative physiology

that demarcates Critical Care Medicine from the other organ-specific disciplines and in the challenging and

delicate issue of end-of-life care with which Critical Care Medicine faculty deal on an almost daily basis. This is

as true for graduates from the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as it is for those from other

faculties. We believe that this represents an unfortunately missed opportunity in the undergraduate curriculum

at McGill due, in all likelihood, to the absence of an advocate at those tables where undergraduate curriculum

is discussed and planned. We believe that a Department of Critical Care Medicine could play a pivotal role in the

undergraduate medical curriculum in such topics as sepsis pathophysiology, vascular biology, respiratory failure,

and the care of patients at the end of life.

Finally, the central role that McGill must play on the future of Critical Care Medicine in Quebec should not be

overlooked. It is apparent to us from conversations we have had with our colleagues from across the province

that the critical care community is looking to McGill, given its legacy of research and pedagogy, for leadership

on this very fundamental issue of academic credibility. The Department of Critical Care in the Faculty of Medicine

and Health Sciences would be a first in Quebec, and the fifth in Canada. We believe that such recognition would

resonate at the MSSS, Fédération des médecins specialistes du Québec (FMSQ), and FRQS thereby lending

considerable standing to the specialty on a variety of crucial dossiers affecting Critical Care Medicine in the

province, most notably an appropriate appreciation of the specific number of medical personnel that hospitals

require to provide care to critically ill patients, the granting of PEM positions, and imparting a higher profile to

research into the care of the critically ill.

Governance Structure

Chair

Executive Committee

Research Committee

Associate Chair

Innovation Committee

Associate Chair

Education Committee

Associate Chair

Clinical Practise Committee

Associate Chair

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Executive Committee

The members of the Executive Committee include the Department Chair, the Intensive Care Unit site directors from the member hospitals – the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal General Hospital, the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), and St. Mary’s Hospital – the associate chair for research, the associate chair for education, the program director for fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine, the director of rotating-residency training in Critical Care Medicine, and the associate chair for innovation.

The Associate Chairs will each lead a Committee tasked with implementing objectives related to the specific portfolios they represent and which form the structural pillars of the department, namely: Clinical Practice, Research, Education, and Innovation.

The Executive Committee, certainly in the incipient phase of the department’s existence, will also carry out the traditional functions of an academic affairs committee. The Executive Committee will review applicants for new academic appointments and the applications for reappointment of academic faculty. The Executive Committee will also recommend members for academic promotion and review those applications for promotion made by its members.

Clinical Practice Committee

The Clinical Practice Committee, led by an Associate Chair, has the mandate of reviewing and updating the bedside practice of critical care across the member hospitals. While each ICU has its own distinctive character based on its history, traditions, and unique patient population it serves, the Clinical Practice Committee will propose certain best practices, based on the available evidence, to propose generic standardization to all of the ICUs.

One of its primary responsibilities will be to continue and expand the collection of data which must inform everything critical care practitioners do at the bedside.

Research Committee

The Research Committee, led by an Associate Chair, has the mandate to develop the research agenda of the department.

The present Critical Care Program at the McGill University Health Center has an internationally recognized fundamental research program and a thriving and growing presence in clinical investigation. The Associate chair in Research would have as his/her primary responsibilities to foster those conditions that would promote the growth of these programs and help lay the groundwork for bench-to-bedside research initiatives for which the ICU is so well-suited.

Education Committee

The Education Committee, led by an Associate Chair, has the mandate of overseeing all teaching activities taking place within the department. His/her responsibilities, along with other members of this committee, will be to develop a core teaching program aimed at medical students and sub-specialty residents rotating through the various ICUs and to work with the program director for fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine to develop innovative education programs. A particular responsibility will be to develop a robust program in simulation medicine.

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Innovation Committee

The Innovation Committee, led by an Associate Chair, has the mandate to identify and implement strategies for the promotion of innovation. The Innovation Committee will consult broadly to ascertain which mechanisms are best suited to drive innovation forward in the Department. The areas of focus of particular interest in the Department of Critical Care Medicine include: artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning.

Faculty Members

The Department of Critical Care Medicine is an academic department responsible for the care of critically ill patients within the intensive care units of the member hospitals, for knowledge creation through the active pursuit of both fundamental and clinical research, and for knowledge translation through the teaching of approximately two hundred subspecialty residents rotating through the various ICUs and of the residents entered in the fellowship training program in Critical Care Medicine at McGill.

Of its 40 faculty members, 38 are physicians who are clinically active in one of the teaching hospitals or teaching sites affiliated to McGill University and two are research scientists in Critical Care Program at the MUHC and all would become members of the Department of Critical Care Medicine. In order to be authorized to interact with students and residents, each member must hold an academic appointment and, under the terms of such appointments, members are held accountable to the policies of the university and to the Code of Conduct of the Faculty of Medicine.

Of the 40 faculty members, four (4) are tenured by McGill University.

Joint-Membership: Because at present there are no PEM positions assigned to Critical Care Medicine in Quebec all members of the Department will have, by necessity, joint membership in two clinical departments. Performance assessments will therefore be a joint responsibility and application for promotion will require the support of both departments.

Associate-Membership: Those members holding their primary appointments outside a McGill-affiliated hospital will be associate members.

Process for becoming a Member

The process for becoming a member in the Department of Critical Care Medicine is driven by two key factors: training and location of clinical activity. All physicians who are recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and by the Collège des médecins du Québec as specialists in Critical Care Medicine will be eligible for membership. Secondly, all present intensive care unit attendings who work at one of the primary McGill affiliated teaching hospitals are eligible for membership, as are those who work in accredited teaching sites that receive McGill trainees. In terms of the latter, if/when students and residents complete part of their training in the intensive care unit in Gatineau those attending ICU physicians would be integrated into the department. All candidates for membership in the department will be approved by the Executive Committee of the Department.

There are presently three non-clinical research scientists who are members of the Critical Care Program of the MUHC. All candidates to become research scientists in the Department will require either membership in the research institutes of the MUHC, JGH, or St. Mary’s Hospital or an academic appointment at McGill University. Their appointments would require approval by the Executive Committee of the Department.

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Financial Resources: Available and Required and Growth of the Department

Thus far, the funding provided to the provisional department has been in the form of a modest Chair’s budget and a limited discretionary fund and the in-kind contribution via provision of support from Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences administrative personnel.

Ever since its creation in 2012, the then Department and now Critical Care Program at the MUHC has had an academic practice plan which has derived its budget from the levy of a fixed tax on clinical earnings. This fund, overseen by a Finance Committee with widespread representation of the Program, has as its fundamental goal to support the academic activities of the Program. These include the payment of salaries of two research assistants, salary supplementation of the salary of the fellowship program director, supplementation of the operational budget of the fellowship training program, and the sponsorship of a fellowship in critical care research.

The Department of Critical Care Medicine intends to draw inspiration from this model. To this end, a task force representing the various constituencies within the department will be struck to determine the exact mechanism to institute a department-wide practice plan.

Concluding Remarks

In conclusion, the establishment of the Department of Critical Care Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University will provide, for the first time, an academic home for the educational and research activities in critical care. This will, we believe, facilitate our intention to become a national and international center for the investigation and education into the pathophysiology and care of the critically ill.

We would very much like to express gratitude for your consideration of our proposal.

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ACADEMIC STAFF

NAME BASE SPECIALTY – SUB-SPECIALTY AFFILIATION

John Angelopoulos Medicine - Internal Medicine MUHC

Mark Angle Anesthesiology MUHC - MNH

Mohammed Badawy Anesthesiology MUHC - MNH

Craig Baldry Anesthesiology JGH

Andrea Blotsky Medicine - Internal Medicine St. Mary’s Hospital

Joseph Dahine Medicine - Internal Medicine Cite de la Sante

Dan Deckelbaum Surgery - Trauma MUHC

Michel de Marchie Medicine - Internal Medicine JGH

Sandra Dial Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine JGH; MUHC

Peter Goldberg Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine MUHC

Stewart Gottfried Research Scientist MUHC – R Institute

Jeremy Grushka Surgery - Trauma MUHC

Ash Gursahaney Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine MUHC

Roupen Hatzakorzian Anesthesiology MUHC

Matthew Hannouche Medicine - Internal Medicine MUHC – MNH

David Hornstein Medicine - Internal Medicine MUHC

Sabah Hussain Research Scientist MUHC – R Institute

Dev Jayaraman Medicine -Internal Medicine JGH; MUHC

Kosar Khwaja Surgery - Trauma MUHC

Arnold Kristof Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine MUHC

Donald Laporta Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine JGH

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Justin Letourneau Anesthesiology MUHC - MNH

Jed Lipes Medicine- Internal Medicine JGH

Katherine McKendy Surgery - Trauma MUHC

Patricia McMillan Anesthesiology JGH

Sheldon Magder Medicine – Cardiology MUHC

Louay Mardini Medicine- Internal Medicine Hopital St. Jerome

Patrick Melanson Emergency Medicine MUHC; MNH

Sabrina Narbonne Family Practice St. Mary’s Hospital

Salman Qureshi Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine MUHC

Tarek Razek Surgery - Trauma MUHC

Robert Salisidis Surgery – General Surgery MUHC

Gordon Samoukovic Surgery - Cardiac Surgery MUHC

Blair Schwartz Medicine – Internal Medicine JGH

Jason Shahin Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine MUHC

Jeanne Teitelbaum Medicine – Neurology MUHC - MNH

Hugo Viladevall Family Practice St. Mary’s Hospital

Paul Warshawsky Medicine -Internal Medicine JGH

Evan Wong Surgery – General Surgery JGH; MUHC

Stephen Yang Anesthesiology JGH

Patrizia Zanelli Medicine - Internal medicine MUHC

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Appendix 1 - List of Stakeholders Consulted (May 2017 – December 2019)

Stakeholders

Dr. Armand Aalamian, Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education and Professional Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. Marc Afilalo, Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, McGill University

Dr. Sam Benaroya, Associate Vice-Principal and Vice-Dean of Health Affairs, McGill University

Dr. Ruth Chaytor, Surgeon-in-Chief, Jewish General Hospital

Dr. Beth-Ann Cummings, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. David Eidelman, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. Gerald Fried, Chair of the Department of Surgery, McGill Faculty of Medicine, and Surgeon-in-Chief of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC

Dr. Ashvini Gursahaney, Associate Chief, Critical Care Program, MUHC and site director, ICU, Montreal General Hospital

Dr. Sabah Hussain, Director of Research, Critical Care Program, MUHC

Ms. Demetra Kafantaris, Senior Advisor to the Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. Simcha Kleiman, Anesthesiologis-in-Chief, Jewish General Hospital

Dr. Arnold Kristof, , Attending Staff, Critical Care Program MUHC and member, Research Institute, MUHC

Dr. Mara Ludwig, Vice-Dean, Academic Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. James G. Martin Chair, Department of Medicine of McGill University and Physician-in-Chief of the McGill University Health Centre

Dr. Leah Moss, Senior Advisor to the Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) & Dean (VP-Dean), Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

Dr. Basil Petrof, Director, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Head , Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program, McGill University Health Center Research Institute

Dr. Tarek Razek, Chief, Attending Staff, Critical Care Program MUHC, and Chief, Trauma Program, MUHC

Dr. Salman Qureshi, Attending Staff, Critical Care Program MUHC and member, Research Institute, MUHC

Dr. Ernesto Schiffrin, Physician-in-Chief, Jewish General Hospital

Dr. Thomas Schricker, Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, McGill University Health Center

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Appendix 3 - Letters of Support

March 6 2020 Dear Dean Eidelman: I am writing to support the creation of a University department in critical care medicine. This will foster the academic mission in critical care across the McGill adult teaching sites and establish requirements for academic roles for the faculty in critical care. I believe it will have the potential to improve training in critical care and provide a unified voice to address challenges. There are key academic and operational interdependencies between surgery and critical care, and we have many surgeon-intensivists on our faculty. Almost all of our trauma surgeons are critical care specialists as well. We therefore have a keen interest in working collaboratively with the department of critical care to optimize recruitment, innovation, faculty development and teaching, as well as ensuring the highest level of clinical care for our patients. Yours sincerely,

____________________ Dr. Liane Feldman Chair, Department of Surgery

October 7, 2020 Dr. David Eidelman Dean, Faculty of Medicine McGill University Dear Dr. Eidelman, Please accept this letter of support for the creation of a Department of Critical Care at McGill. I echo and re-affirm Dr. James Martin’s support for the creation of the Department. Creation of a Department will strengthen academics in Critical Care medicine at McGill. Developing a more integrated academic community for our Intensivists will facilitate academic accountability and ensure heightened research productivity, creation of strong teaching programs and foster clinical innovation. It will allow a new Chair to start fresh with a new structure to grow academics in Critical Care. It will facilitate recruitment efforts by creating a central body through which we can jointly recruit ICU interested internists, surgeons and anesthetists. The group already has a robust practice plan that will likely be strengthened by the legitimacy of a Department. All the best,

Marc Rodger MD FRCPC MSc (Epidemiology) Chair, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University Physician-in-Chief, McGill University Health Center Harry Webster Thorp Professor of Medicine Directeur, Département de médecine, Faculté de médecine, Université McGill, Chef du Département de médecine, Centre universitaire santé McGill Professeur titulaire de médecine Harry Webster Thorp 1001 boulevard Décarie, Montréal, QC, H4A 3J1 Tél.: 514-843-1578 Fax: 514-843-8182

MEMORANDUM

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST AND VICE-PRINCIPAL (ACADEMIC)

James Administration Building, Room 504

Tel: (514) 398-4177 Fax: (514) 398-4768

TO: Senate

cc: Georgia Ntentis, Governance Officer, Senate

FROM: Christopher Manfredi, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic)

Chair of the Academic Policy Committee (APC)

RE: Renaming of the McGill AIDS Centre to the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases (MCVD)

DATE: October 16th, 2020

The purpose of this memo is to put forward a request to Senate to consider and approve the

request to change the name of the McGill AIDS Centre to the McGill Centre for Viral Diseases,

which was approved by APC on October 15th, 2020.

Background and Rationale/issues to address

The McGill AIDS Centre was founded in 1990 when HIV/AIDS was a death sentence to more

than 10 million people affected. Under the leadership of Dr. Mark Wainberg, the founding

Director, members of the McGill AIDS Centre have made remarkable contributions over the

past three decades to the understanding of the cause of AIDS, the development of

antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infection, and the clinical management of this terrible disease.

While HIV infection has now become a manageable, chronic medical condition, it is still

incurable, affecting 37 million people worldwide. HIV did not emerge alone. In the past

decades, we have seen the outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, Yellow Fever, Dengue, and Influenza

viruses, in addition to other viral diseases affecting billions of people. Now, we face the test of

the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, to which we do not yet have the medical solutions,

and the final toll of this pandemic cannot be foretold. In these contexts, we propose to

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capitalize on McGill University’s legacy of expertise in viral diseases and expand the current

mandate of the McGill AIDS Centre and transform it into the “McGill Centre for Viral Diseases”,

through uniting the talented McGill researchers who have been devoted to investigating these

deadly viral pathogens.

MCVD will support more than 40 faculty members working on viral diseases at the levels of

fundamental science, clinical research, social science, and global health. It will thus have a

comparable size and breath compared to other virology centres such as the BC Centre for

Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the GLASGOW Centre for Virus Research, Gladstone Institute of

Virology & Immunology (San Francisco), Institute of Human Virology (Maryland), and Centre for

Virology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York). One strength of MCVD will

be its strong tie with the McGill teaching hospitals, which effectively links basic research to

clinical research. Members of MCVD will collaborate with other virology centres, taking

initiative and manifesting leadership in many frontiers of virology research.

Consultation

Extensive consultation has taken place and letters of support have been submitted from both

internal stakeholders, peer institutions, representatives from the pharmacology industry as well

as advocate/patients.

Risk factors

We believe there is no risk factors associated to this request. Rather, this request will provide

clarity to outside stakeholders to the mandate of the research centre.

Impact of Decision, next steps

The McGill Centre for Viral Diseases in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill

University will become an internationally renowned research centre recognized for its

pioneering research and education in globally threatening viral diseases including COVID-19.

Should Senate endorse the MCVD, the proposal will be submitted to the Board of Governors for

final approval.

MEMORANDUM

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST AND VICE-PRINCIPAL (ACADEMIC)

James Administration Building, Room 504

Tel: (514) 398-4177 Fax: (514) 398-4768

TO: Senate

cc: Georgia Ntentis, Governance Officer, Senate

FROM: Christopher Manfredi, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic)

Chair of the Academic Policy Committee (APC)

RE: Renaming of the McGill University Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC) to

the McGill Genome Centre (MGC)

DATE: October 16th, 2020

The purpose of this memo is to put forward a request to Senate to consider and approve the

request to change the name of the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre

(MUGQIC) to the McGill Genome Centre (MGC), which was approved by APC on October 15th,

2020.

Context

Founded in 2002, the Centre has developed a world-renowned expertise in complex genetic

disorders such as cardiac disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, asthma, Type 2 diabetes,

etc. and has become a resource and a networking site for various research initiatives in human

health, forestry, infectious diseases, agriculture and environment.

In 2019-20, the Centre supported some 1000 academic and industry research teams from

Canada and abroad. It has a successful record of providing the Canadian scientific community

with access to high-throughput genomic facilities and state-of-the-art methodologies. Its

extensive networking with national and international genomics communities enhances its

ability to adopt new methodologies and ensure their deployment in cutting-edge scientific

programs.

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On 3 October 2019, McGill University and Genome Quebec (GQ) signed an amending

agreement that ended the partnership effective 31 March 2020. As such, as of 1 April 2020, the

“MUGQIC” name no longer reflects the composition of the Centre.

Recommendation

Given the cessation of the relationship with Genome Quebec and their departure from the

building, it is appropriate to change the name of the Centre to reflect this reality. The

leadership of the Centre asks that the name be changed from:

The McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC) Centre d'innovation Génome Québec et Université McGill (CIGQUM)

To

The McGill Genome Centre (MGC) Centre de génome McGill (CGM) The Centre leadership feels the new name more accurately reflects the current and future occupants of the building given Genome Quebec is no longer a resident partner in the work done. Following approval, the Centre would begin the process of replacing the old name with the new on all official correspondence and be communicated via Health-E news (formally med-E news) and other news media within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Next steps

Should Senate endorse the McGill Genome Centre, the proposal will be submitted to the Board

of Governors for final approval.

mcgill university senate report of the academic policy

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