The University of Ottawa:
- is among Canada's top 10 research universities
- is located in Ottawa, Canada's capital city
The Faculty of Medicine:
- is located at the Roger-Guindon Campus (RGN) on Smyth Road, attached to the Ottawa Hospital's General Campus and Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
- is affiliated with Bruyère Continuing Care, CHEO, The Ottawa Hospital, Montfort Hospital, and Royal Ottawa Mental Care Group
- offers five graduate programs, available at the MSc and PhD levels:
- offers three collaborative programs:
- Bioinformatics
- Human and Molecular Genetics
- Pathology and Experimental Medicine
- offers one combined program: MD/PhD
- has approximately 500 enrolled graduate students and 150 postdoctoral fellows