Shame on You, McGill!

Quebec has become so pathetic that it is now turning its most prestigious university into a vocational school to service some completely spurious budget crisis.

A new curriculum being introduced this year in the faculty of medicine at McGill University has some doctors worried that McGill will lose its edge in the world of research and become a “family doctor factory” that will diminish the university’s status.

Some physicians who have been involved with teaching at McGill oppose the direction of the new curriculum, arguing that it cuts back on the foundational science required for medical students and will jeopardize McGill’s long-standing ability to produce high-calibre clinician scientists — doctors who also do research.

Instead of receiving actual instruction from real doctors, McGill’s students will now be offered “problem-solving sessions” where they will waste their time diagnosing runny noses. Where they are supposed to acquire the basic knowledge needed to forma un understanding of medicine remains a mystery.

With the insane amounts of money that people in Quebec pay in taxes, any conversation about there being not enough funds to continue the university’s research agenda and paying the doctors who used to teach students is completely stupid.

Shame on you, McGill University, for lending yourself so gladly to pleasing the brainless bureaucrats who bleed you dry and then take away everything you thought these taxes were supposed to  provide. This move will not only deprive you of quality education in the field of medicine, it will also make the problems with obtaining quality healthcare in Quebec even greater.