Medical Sciences Building

Training the best physicians of the country since 1843. If someone’s gonna save your life and do it properly, it’s likely someone who has had top notch training at this institution. MSB is where most medical school lectures and anatomy labs take place, and has been rated as the best medical school in Canada based on recent statistics. The faculty of medicine is easily known for its reputation around the world.
Aside from the med school there is also a lot of intense, important medical research going on here in the building. Engineering/​devising/​understanding cures for diseases!

MSB houses a bunch of labs, the medical school and the MD/​PhD and physician scientist programs. For such an awesome student body in this building, where is the awesome caf??? We need a dedicated sushi area (not just the boxed sushi rolls at the back) and a faster, more efficient Starbucks. Also the «make your own salad» area needs to be cheaper, I’ve shockingly spent over $ 15 on one before because I had no idea how much it weighed until the cashier weighed it. :-(If healthy, delicious food options were a bit cheaper here, I’d eat here a lot more.

It deserves more than 2 stars for the history and prestige it carries in regards to what has been done and the type of research that is going on at present. But for such a renowned institute «the best medical school in Canada?», the actual building, classrooms and especially laboratories while containing enough to hold classes and perform research at are not to the level they should be.
Everything looks worn out and there are countless labs that just lack any windows, are super cluttered and just too close spaced for there to be an effective research environment compared to most of the new research institutes that pop up that actively promote an open area for multiple labs to share things and work together. Now there are lots of labs in here that do share and work together, but from what I hear and see the actual layout of the building does not make all this collaboration a breeze.
There are a couple of large lecture halls that have seen some famous scientists come to hold talks at, and the seats in both those rooms are all good and comfortable for the most part. Classrooms are mainly consisted of individual immovable chairs with attached tables in smaller than average rooms which is actually a good thing as most classes I’ve had here (in higher years) encourage discussion and the smaller class sizes help that cause.
In the last few years, the cafeteria area has undergone some renovations and has linked up with the far nicer «CCBR» building, there is a Starbucks and a Tim Hortons just a few corridors from each other as well as a food serving area that’s a standard around the campus with a stir fry station, grill, sandwich stop etc. So while not cheap, if you are hungry and within the limited business hours you will find something to fill your hunger while seated at a large and comfy dining area.
A major renovation to modernize the whole facility will be very costly and disruptive and I highly doubt it would get a massive changeover anytime soon, but the campus in general has been coming up with some stellar new research buildings that one can afford to let it slide that this building remains like this for the time being.