RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 After the war is over: the role of General Sir Arthur Currie in the development of academic medicine in Canada
JF Canadian Journal of Surgery
JO CAN J SURG
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 367
OP 369
DO 10.1503/cjs.017118
VO 61
IS 6
A1 Hyatt, A.M. Jack
A1 Beckett, Andrew
A1 McAlister, Vivian C.
YR 2018
UL http://canjsurg.ca/content/61/6/367.abstract
AB Canadian universities faced a challenge with the return of a large cohort of battle-hardened students and faculty from the First World War. General Sir Arthur Currie, considered one of the few successful generals of the war, returned to a welcome of silence in Canada. McGill University exploited the opportunity to recruit him as its president. Currie oversaw a campaign of building construction and faculty development at McGill that also had a significant effect on the rest of Canada. Through his fostering of the Montreal Neurological Institute and the recruitment of Dr. Wilder Penfield, Currie facilitated the development of multidisciplinary medicine, which integrates clinical care with research — an aspiration still held by specialty medicine in Canada today.