On March 8, 2017, McGill University, Canada and Gifu University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish and foster collaborative relations.

Founded in 1821, McGill University is a public university in Montreal, Quebec, with 40,000 students. Its main campus is at the foot of Mount Royal in Montreal and its second campus, Macdonald, is near forested lands in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, also on the Montreal Island. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, McGill University ranks among the finest research-intensive universities in the world.

Partnership between Gifu University and McGill University started in 2012 with active faculty exchanges between the Medical Education Development Center (MEDC), Gifu University, and the Centre for Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, primarily in the field of medical education. With the signing of the MOU, the two universities are expected to engage in more wide-ranging, robust exchanges in the future. These include faculty and staff exchanges in clinical practice training, implementation of joint research activities, participation in seminars and academic meetings, short- and medium-term research visits for graduate students and postdoctoral students, and exchanges of undergraduate students and academic materials.