Our Mission: Help Medical, Academic and Political Leaders Fulfil Their Social Responsibility Commitment by Improving Health Care
At PG Consultation, our mission is to help you fulfil your responsibilities to vulnerable populations by providing you with expertise and quality support for the rapid roll-out of regional medical education.
Draw on the Expertise of 120 Instructional Medical Campuses
For six years, Dr. Pierre Gagné played a leadership role on the Executive Committee of the Group on Regional Medical Campuses of the prestigious Association of American Medical Colleges in order to address the major challenges of decentralized medical education.
Dr. Pierre Gagné was presented with the 2011 Clinical Professor of the Year Award by the Québec Medical Association, and was also a visiting professor at the Harvard Macy Institute from 2008 to 2011 as part of the Intensive Session on Leadership in Medical Education, a joint Harvard Medical School – Harvard Business School project.
Dr. Gagné :
- Is in close contact with many of North America’s medial training leaders
- Has a deep understanding of the issues experienced by various faculties of medicine
- Has assessed the efficacy of a broad range of solutions applied to different contexts
- Has an extensive network of exceptional collaborators
- Has knowledge of various medical training roll-out strategies in regions that lack physicians
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Exceptional Success: the Mauricie Campus
Launched in 2003, the Université de Montréal’s Mauricie Campus now boasts almost 200 medical students in the program’s various components. Dr. Pierre Gagné played a pivotal role in the campus’s establishment and success.
This Project Is a Clear Success Story in Several Respects:
- The first students arrived within 24 months.
- The first general practitioners earned their diploma in just 36 months and 80% of them established a practice in the region, a source of great pride for the community!
- Quality instruction: After only two cohorts of graduates, the Campus stands out for medical training excellence and ranks first, ahead of 17 faculties of medicine in Canada, based on results obtained at the Medical Council of Canada examinations.
- The region no longer has a medical staff shortage.
Dr. Pierre Gagné, founder of the Campus of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Medicine in Mauricie and its first Assistant Dean, focused on collaboration to bring about various collective successes for this bold roll-out strategy.
At the opening of the Campus facilities in 2009, the Québec Minister of Health and Social Services described the Campus as “Québec’s most beautiful medical campus!” The following year, its students ranked first at the Medical Council of Canada examinations, ahead of 17 faculties of medicine.
The Campus now has more than 200 students in training.
Investing in Regional Medical Education: a Responsible Government Decision
- $10 million invested to end severe medical staff shortages that were compromising the population’s health and well-being.
- The local community rallied to make a $1-million donation to the project.
- The number of physicians practising in the region now matches the Québec average.
In 2010, students at the Université de Montréal’s Mauricie Campus ranked first at the Medical Council of Canada examinations, ahead of 17 faculties of medicine in Canada. Pictured above are the graduates of the 1st cohort of the Campus in 2009. Dr. Gagné is pictured to the left of the second row.
Dr. Gagné, proudly standing in front of the Clinical Skills Laboratory, where students can perform realistic simulations of resuscitation.
