page_title: McMaster University Medical School
section_title: Facilities and teaching sites
hierarchical_section_title: McMaster University Medical School / Facilities and teaching sites
caption_attribution_description: English: General Hospital, corner of Victoria Avenue and Barton Streets, Hamilton, Canada.
context_page_description: The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, known as the McMaster University School of Medicine prior to 2004, is the medical school of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences. It is one of two medical programs in Canada, along with the University of Calgary, that operates on an accelerated 3-year MD program, instead of the traditional 4-year MD program.
  Currently, McMaster ranks 26th in the world and 3rd in Canada for medicine according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020. In 2012, McMaster ranked 14th in the world and 1st in Canada in medicine, according to the Times Higher Education Rankings.
  The school received 5,228 applications for the Class of 2022, the most applications of any medical school in Canada, and had an acceptance rate of 3.9%. The average cumulative GPA of entering undergraduates in the Class of 2020 was 3.87 and the average MCAT Verbal Reasoning or Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills score was 129, a score in the 95th percentile.
context_section_description: The school is located at McMaster University's main campus in Hamilton, Ontario, housed within the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, a building built in 2004 and the adjacent Health Sciences Centre. The DeGroote facility is shared with the Centre for Function Genomics, Centre for Gene Therapeutics, Institute for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Research, Robert E. Fitzhenry Vector Laboratory, Centre for Asthma and Allergy Research (Allergen) and North American Headquarters for West Nile studies, as well as the Bachelor of Health Sciences undergraduate program.
  In 2016, the medical school opened the David Braley Health Sciences Centre, a 192,000 square foot building, to be used by the Family Medicine department, Hamilton Public Health and other various academic divisions of the medical school.
  The medical school currently operates three campuses: the main Hamilton campus; the Waterloo Regional Campus located on the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo in downtown Kitchener, Ontario; and the Niagara Regional Campus located on the main campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. All three campuses offer the same curriculum and lead to the same degree, but differ in patient populations and teaching locations.
  McMaster's teaching hospitals are divided into two major hospital groupings: Hamilton Health Sciences, recently ranked 2nd in Canada among research hospitals and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
  The school is also affiliated with the following Ontario hospitals, where students rotate and train during their clerkship:
  St. Mary's General Hospital
  Grand River Hospital
  Joseph Brant Hospital
  Brantford General Hospital
  Cambridge Memorial Hospital
  West Lincoln Memorial Hospital
  Niagara Health System (Greater Niagara, Niagara-on-the Lake, Port Colborne Campuses)
  Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
  Grey Bruce Health Services
  Norfolk General Hospital
  Brampton Civic Hospital
  Markham Stouffville Hospital
  Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital
  Southlake Regional Health Centre
caption: Hamilton General Hospital
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