About us
The MSS Medical Education Committee (EdCom) is an MSS standing committee established in 2016 that functions to formalize and organize medical student representation and feedback to the Undergraduate Medical Education office and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as a whole. There are over 65 student representatives representing the student body and serving over 20 official sub-committees.
If you have an issue that you would like EdCom to address, please consult the list of representatives provided below and contact the appropriate person by email. (Please copy your class president on all correspondences). Alternatively, you may submit an anonymous feedback form below and we will ensure your feedback gets sent to the appropriate representatives.
EdCom Winter 2025 Recruitment
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EdCom Terms of Reference
Your VPs Medical Education
Medical Education Initiatives
MAPS Taskforce
One of EdCom’s academic initiatives is the MSS Academic Peer Support (MAPS) taskforce, whose mandate is to support students in FMD that are in a remedial situation to match with a peer tutor to help them review for the remedial. This process is confidential and allows a student in a remedial situation to select a peer tutor of their choice in a bank of peer tutors from Med-1 and Med-2.
For more information about MAPS, please visit the MAPS page on the MSS website:
Study Debrief Sessions
One of EdCom’s new initiative consists of our Study Debrief Sessions. Held after every FMD block exam, these sessions are an open space for discussion and sharing about study methods…
The UGME committees we sit on
MSS-EdCom Committees
Student Leadership Meetings | SL
At these meetings, elected student representatives who sit on both the MSS Council & EdCom discuss emerging issues with the Associate Dean UGME. This is an excellent opportunity to improve communication and collaboration between MSS, EdCom, and UGME, and troubleshoot any issue if necessary.
N.B. This is not an official subcommittee of the UGME or MDCM Program Committee, but rather an informal meeting between the Associate Dean UGME and the MSS/EdCom student representatives.
Frequency of meetings: 1-2X / month
Montreal Campus:
Outaouais Campus
Program Committees
MDCM Program Committee
This committee is the highest decision-making body for the UGME, chaired by the Associate Dean UGME (Dr. Mondou). It is where all policies, course objectives, assessments tools, and major changes in the functioning of the program must be approved.
Our student representatives share feedback from the student body, and represent students’ interests during the decision-making process. They have one junior vote, one senior vote, and one Gatineau vote.
Frequency of meetings: 2-3 X / month
VP Education Approved Delegates
Program Evaluation and Curricular Outcomes Subcommittee | PECO
PECO promotes the continuous improvement of the MDCM program by making recommendations about program objectives, content, instruction, learning environment, compliance with Faculty policies, and the performance of cohorts of medical graduates from McGill.
Student representatives provide this committee with the student perspective, particularly in interpreting student survey responses and in ameliorating the surveying process.
Frequency of meetings: 1X / month (10 total per year)
Wellness and Learning Environment Subcommittee | WALE
The mandate of the Wellness and Learning Environment Subcommittee is to review policies and data that relate to the learning environment and to participate in the development and implementation of curriculum content aimed at promoting wellness and resilience in learners.
The student’s role is to provide feedback about these policies and data and suggest new ways to improve the content of the current wellness curriculum.
Frequency of meetings: 2X / year
MDCM Admissions Committee
This committee has final responsibility for the selection and admission of students to the Faculty of Medicine MDCM and Med-P programs. It determines the design of the admissions process and the selection criteria applied to prospective candidates. Of late, the Admissions Committee has focused on modifying the admissions process to accommodate the upcoming McGill Medicine Satellite campus in Gatineau.
The responsibility of the student representative is to represent the student body in all decisions and actions taken by the Admissions Committee.
Frequency of meetings: at least 3X / year
N.B. This committee does not fall under the MDCM Program Committee; it has direct oversight from the Associate Dean UGME and from the overarching Faculty of Medicine.
Curriculum Management Committee
The mandate of the Curriculum Management Subcommittee is to assist the MDCM Program Committee in ensuring alignment between the curriculum elements and maintaining a contemporary curriculum the MDCM Program. It is an advisory subcommittee to the MDCM Program Committee. It reports regularly on its findings related to curricular management of the program and makes recommendations to the MDCM Program Committee with the goal of ensuring alignment between the program learning objectives, assessment strategies and the curriculum.
The responsibility of the student representative is to represent the student body in all decisions and actions taken by the Curriculum Management Committee.
Frequency of meetings: at least 4X / year
Junior Reps:
Senior Reps:
Theme Committees
Basic Science, Critical Thinking and Knowledge Translation Theme Subcommittee | BSCTKT
The Basic Science, Critical Thinking and Knowledge Translation curricular theme guides the teaching of Basic Sciences, Social Studies of Medicine, Research Fundamentals, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), and Critical Appraisal throughout the four years of the MDCM Program.
The student representative provides student input and feedback related to the themes and courses falling under the purview of the BSCTKT committee. They obtain student feedback through surveys and focus groups.
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
Social Accountability, Population Health and Health Advocacy | SAPHHA
The SAPHHA committee, chaired by Dr. Anne Andermann, is responsible to advise the MDCM Program Committee on matters related to content and integration of the Social Accountability, Primary Health & Health Advocacy curricular theme within the MDCM Program. This committee has oversight of the Molecules to Global Health course (Block A), the CHAP course, and longitudinal teaching of this theme across the curriculum.
The students represent the Medical Education Committee on the Social Accountability, Primary Health & Health Advocacy Subcommittee. Their role is to gather and report student feedback to this subcommittee with the goal of improving teaching related to the SAPHHA theme.
SAPHHA was created in 2018 by merging two previous committees: PHCPH (Primary Health Care and Population Health) and SAHA (Social Accountability and Health Advocacy).
Frequency of meetings: minimum 2X / year
Component Committees
FMD Component Subcommittee
This committee has oversight of all courses taught during the first 1.5 years of the curriculum, from Block A to Block J, including the longitudinal courses of FMD.
Frequency of meetings: minimum 4X / year (average 1X / month)
TCP Component Subcommittee
This committee oversees all courses in TCP, the 6-months long transition period between pre-clinical and clinical teachings in our curriculum.
Frequency of meetings: minimum 4X / year (average 1X / month)
Clerkship Component Subcommittee
This committee oversees all courses during Clerkship.
Frequency of meetings: minimum 4X / year (average 1X / month)
Physicianship Component Subcommittee
The physicianship component committee is responsible for the oversight of many courses such as Physician Apprenticeship, Clinical Methods, Medical Ethics and Health Law, Community Health Alliance Project, Mindful Medical Practice, and Transition To Residency.
The role of the student representatives on the PCC is to advocate for student issues regarding the courses this committee oversees.
Frequency of meetings: 6X / year
Montreal
Course Committees
Longitudinal Family Medicine Experience | LFME
The committee is chaired by Dr. Laurie Musgrave and includes the LFME coordinator, FMD Component Director Dr. Colin Chalk, and other physicians including family physicians involved in medical education.
The role of the LFME Committee Representative is to represent the first year medical school class on all issues related to the LFME experience. The committee discusses current concerns and future programming, and it is the student representative’s job to bring forward class feedback to the committee.
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
Nadia Feng
LFME Rep
Community Health Alliance Project | CHAP
The Community Health Alliance Project (CHAP) is a course that gives students the opportunity to work with local community organizations and projects, in the context of a service learning placement, to improve the health of a community or population. The CHAP committee reviews current and potential service learning placements (i.e. community organizations), assignments and exercises assigned to students, and also reviews student comments and feedback.
Student representatives make themselves available to answer student questions and concerns related to the course and represent their interests on the CHAP committee.
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
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CHAP Med-1 Rep
Sherry Xu
CHAP Med-2 Rep
Jenna Kliot
CHAP Med-3 Rep
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CHAPP Junior Rep (CO)
Félix Rousseau
CHAPP Senior Rep (CO)
Public Health and Preventative Medicine | PHPM
The aim of the committee is to ensure that the PHPM is meeting its course objectives. This committee ensures student satisfaction with the course and strives to improve the course.
The student representative gathers feedback from their peers about the PHPM course and represents these interests at course sub-committee meetings.
Frequency of meetings: 2X / year
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PHPM Rep
Putting It All Together | PIAT
Putting it All Together (PIAT) is a 4th year course designed to brush up students’ understanding of basic science and social science research, ensuring that they graduate as well-rounded physicians who are able to incorporate the academic world around them into their practice.
The student representatives represent students’ input in the shaping of this new course and liaise between their class and the course director (Dr. Hébert).
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
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PIAT Senior Rep
Catherine Korman
PIAT Junior Rep
Transition To Residency | TTR
The TTR committee consists of an interprofessional body of McGill faculty and student representatives and oversees the design and the smooth implementation of the Transition to Residency Course based on the feedback received from preceding years.
The student representatives liaise between the student body and faculty in order to ensure students’ input in the design of the TTR course in Med 4.
Frequency of meetings: 2X / year and additional phone meetings
Ahmed Al-Asmar
TTR Senior Rep
Ammar Saed Aldien
TTR Junior Rep
UGME Clinical Departments Committees
Family Medicine
This committee oversees the family medicine curriculum during FMD (LFME), TCP (Family Medicine), and Clerkship (Family Medicine– Urban & Rural, electives). Course and site directors sit on this committee.
The student representatives attend meetings of the Family Medicine Undergraduate Education Committee and provide feedback from their class on the Family Medicine curriculum.
Frequency of meetings: 1X / month (total of 7 per year)
Rayhana Cheriti
Family Medicine Med-2 Rep
Dimitri Yang
Family Medicine Med-3 Rep
Han Zhang Huang
Family Medicine Med-4 Rep
Internal Medicine
The Undergraduate Internal Medicine Committee oversees the curriculum of Internal Medicine in TCP and Clerkship. The committee is made up of student representatives from Med-2, Med-3 and Med-4 as well as the Internal Medicine site directors.
The student representative’s role is to provide feedback and recommend changes to the curriculum in Internal Medicine throughout TCP and clerkship.
Frequency of meetings: 1X / month
Rosie Fountotos
Internal Med-2 Rep
Monica Taing
Internal Med-3 Rep
Emily Aronoff
Internal Med-4 Rep
Surgery
The SUEC is composed of members from general surgery, as well as all surgical subspecialties to which students may be exposed during their core clerkship surgery rotation. Topics include student teaching, supervision, evaluation, and scheduling.
The SUEC student representatives fulfill 2-year mandates by representing the interests of their fellow peers regarding the core clerkship surgery course.
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
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Surgery Senior Rep
Khadija Brouillette
Surgery Junior Rep
Pediatrics
The purpose of the pediatrics committee is to continuously assess and improve the pediatrics curriculum for second-year TCP and third-year clerkship students.
The student representatives act as intermediates between the student body and the pediatric clerkship directors. The final goal is to work with the committee to enrich the clerkship pediatrics experience.
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
Johanie Victoria Piché
Pediatrics Senior Rep
Rayane Tabbara
Pediatrics Junior Rep
Psychiatry
The Psychiatry Committee is in charge of the clerkship component of psychiatry education at McGill. It is composed of the site directors, the course director, two student representatives and one resident representative.
The student representative role is to provide a student’s perspective in the conversations within the committee. He/she also advocates for his/her colleagues’ best interests to maximize the learning experience of psychiatry rotations.
Frequency of meetings: 10-12X / year
Martina Erdstein
Psychiatry Senior Rep
Jimin Lew
Psychiatry Junior Rep
Obstetrics and Gynecology
The OBGYN Clerkship committee is involved in all aspects of the Obs-Gyn core clerkship rotations. It includes all site directors and their respective student affairs coordinators.
The student rep is involved in obtaining student feedback from their Obs-Gyn rotation experience, offering support to students, and sitting in with the committee members to raise students’ concerns.
Frequency of meetings: 4X / year
Hillary Chappus-McCendie
OBGYN Senior Rep
Taylor Morgenstein
OBGYN Junior Rep
Emergency Medicine
The Emergency Medicine Clerkship Committee is the program committee consisting of the site coordinators and administrators in charge of the 4th year clerkship rotation in emergency medicine.
The student representative’s role is to attend committee meetings and provide student perspectives in order to strengthen the rotation.
Frequency of meetings: Variable
Saad Razzaq
Emergency Medicine Rep
Geriatrics
The Geriatrics Committee consists of physician representatives from every site, including Gatineau, as well as resident representatives and administrative staff.
By attending committee meetings, student representatives are able to provide staff members with students’ feedback on their experience during the geriatric rotations, be it site-specific or more general.
Frequency of meetings: 5X / year
Sophie Hallot
Geriatrics Senior Rep
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Geriatrics Junior Rep
UGME Organization Charts
Please refer to these charts for a global view of the structure of UGME governance.
EdCom Reports 2024-2025 Academic Year
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