How to make your first appointment
Clinics and services are spread out across our hospital sites. As of January 2025, the MUHC is phasing in a new digital system to receive and process requests for first appointments.
NEW! Patients with a referral from a specialist who are requesting a first appointment at the Montreal General Hospital or The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and patients with a referral who are requesting a first appointment at the Lachine Hospital please use the MUHC Referral Portal.
Until further notice, patients needing a first appointment at the Glen site (Adult), please follow the steps below depending on your situation.
Please select one:
Your doctor must send your request directly to the Centre de repartition des demandes de service (CRDS) for the following services:
- Allergy and Immunology
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- ENT (Otolaryngology)
- Gastroenterology
- General surgery
- Geriatrics
- Gynecology
- Hematology-oncology
- Internal medicine
- Medical oncology
- Microbiology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Physiatry
- Plastic surgery
- Psychiatry
- Respiratory
- Rheumatology
- Urology
- Vascular surgery
If you have been referred by a specialist for one of the following specialties, please send your referral to our appointment centre by email: [email protected]
- Allergy and Immunology
- Breast Centre
- Cardiology
- Colorectal Surgery
- Chronic Viral Illness Service (CVIS)
- Cardiac Surgery
- Dermatology
- ENT (Otolaryngology)
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Head and Neck
- Hematology
- Immune Deficiency Treatment Centre (IDTC)
- Infectious Diseases
- Internal Medicine (RVH ONLY)
- Nephrology (RVH ONLY)
- Nutrition
- Orthopedics
- Plastic Surgery
- Respiratory
- Rheumatology
- Tropical Medicine
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery
- Vestibular Clinic
- Voice Lab
Specialty not on the list?
Certain specialties manage their own appointments and are not integrated with the Appointment Centre. Consult the list of clinical departments and services if you need to contact a department or send a referral from your specialist to a department that is not listed above.
Required information
To facilitate the processing of your referral, you must include the following information:
- first and last name
- date of birth
- provincial or private health insurance information
- reason for consultation
- email address
- phone number(s) to be reached
- name and license number of your referring physician
Note: Referrals that are incomplete and/or illegible will be returned.
How to make a follow-up appointment
If you would like to book a follow-up appointment, or to cancel or reschedule any existing appointment in a clinic that you were referred to by a specialty listed above, please call the appointment centre at 514-934-8488.
Please note that you can ask for a follow-up appointment at the clinic reception following your visit.
Call the clinic phone number listed here if you need information about your appointment with any of these surgical clinics:
| Site | Clinic | Phone | Extension |
| Glen | Otolaryngology, Head and Neck, Voice Lab | 514-843-2099 | |
| Glen | Breast Clinic | 514-934-1934 | 32829 |
| Glen | Colorectal Surgery | 514-934-8486 | |
| Glen | Urology | 514-843-1608 | |
| Glen | General Surgery | 514-934-1934 | 34957 |
| Glen | Plastic Surgery | 514-934-1934 | 34957 |
| Glen | Transplant Clinic | 514-843-2240 | |
| MGH | General Surgery | 514-934-1934 | 48025 |
| MGH | Plastic Surgery | 514-934-1934 | 44341 |
| 5252 de Maisonneuve West | Ophthalmology | 514-934-1934 | 44089 |