McWhinney, Dr. I.R.
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Dr. Ian McWhinney, Professor
Emeritus of Family Medicine at The University of Western Ontario was born and raised in
Burnley, England where his father was a general practitioner. He was educated at Cambridge
and St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, graduating M.B., B.Ch. in 1949. After
military service and postgraduate training in medicine, he entered general practice in
Stratford-on-Avon, where he remained for fourteen years. During this time he received the
Cambridge M.D. by thesis (1959), published The Early Signs of Illness (1964), and
papers on clinical aspects of general practice, and won a Nuffield Travelling Fellowship
to spend six months as a Fellow in Family Medicine at Harvard. In 1968, the family moved to Canada, where Ian was appointed to the new Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, the first in Canada. He held the chair during the formative years of academic family medicine in Canada, stepping down in 1987. He was then Medical Director of the Palliative Care Unit at Parkwood Hospital for six years, while continuing his research in family medicine and teaching in the Department's Graduate Studies program. In 1993 he was recognized as outstanding educator in family medicine by the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges. He has received awards for teaching and research from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (U.S.A.). He is a foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (U.S.A.) and has received an Honourary M.D. from the University of Ohio. In 1998 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has published many papers and several books on clinical, philosophical, and educational aspects of family practice. The second edition of his Textbook of Family Medicine was published in 1997 by Oxford University Press. |
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M.B., B.Chir., Cambridge, 1949 M.R.C.P., London, 1954 M.D. (by Thesis), Cambridge, 1959 C.C.F.P., Canada 1970
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Nuffield Travelling Fellow in General Practice, July-December, 1964; Fellow in Family Medicine, Harvard University, 1964; Certificate of Excellence, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, U.S.A., 1979; Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1970; Jephcott Professorship, Cambridge, England, 1982-1983; Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, 1983; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1986; Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 1988; Curtis Hames Research Award, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, U.S.A., 1989; Baron Dr. Ver Heyden De Lancey Memorial Award, Royal College of General Practitioners, 1991; Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Oslo, 1991; Outstanding Educator in Canadian Family Medicine, 1993; The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, Wm. Pickles Lecturer, Royal College of General Practitioners, 1996; Order of Canada, 1998 |