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The students of the Faculty of medicine of the university of Montreal will receive some courses henceforth in prevention of the illness. The medical formation dispensed by the most important school of medicine to Canada, as regards to studying strengths, will take advantage of the works of the new chair of Lucie teaching and André Chagnon on the approach integrated in prevention.

Setting up thanks to a grant of 2 millions $THAT of the Foundation Lucie and André Chagnon, the new academic chair will take care to produce educational tools concerning prevention of the illness and to integrate the concept of social pediatrics to the curriculum of teaching of the Faculty.

Leaving from the idea that the acquirement of healthy habits of life permits to warn and to reduce the impact of the main problems of health, the physicians in formation will be sensitized to a global approach of the health care. One will hold notably account, in the courses dispensed to the future physicians, of the conclusive data coming from the complementary and alternative medical approaches.

The holder of the new chair, Dre Brigitte Maheux, professeure to the Department of social and preventive medicine, underline that it is necessary ” to give back all his/her/its importance to the prevention by the future physicians”. ” It is a beautiful challenge, she/it says, that throws us the Foundation Chagnon while procuring us some meaningful financial means to improve the teaching in this domain. ”

In addition to intervene by the future physicians, the holder of the new academic chair wishes to be able to touch those also and those that study in cares male nurses and in pharmacy. ” The approach integrated in care of health is a business of team work and collaboration between the different health professionals”, she/it underlines.

The Foundation Lucie and André Chagnon1 has for mission to contribute to the development and the improvement of health by the prevention of poverty and the illness while acting mainly by the children and their parents.

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