Education & Training

OTTAWA – Algonquin College and HealthCareCAN have signed an agreement to extend and expand their current collaboration to deliver online training programs and build a ‘Campus of Care’ for healthcare professionals across Canada and beyond. Read More

MONTREAL – Concordia University has received the go-ahead to create an interdisciplinary School of Health that will start in the fall of 2022. The School of Health will bring together several of the university’s research centres and faculties already working on health-related themes, from cell and molecular biology departments to engineering, psychology, humanities and community health faculties. Read More

TORONTO – Analytics leader SAS is increasing its support of COVID researchers through new, free analytics training options. A year ago, SAS provided free use of healthcare analytics software for users of the COVID-19 Research Database (CRD), a secure repository of HIPAA-compliant, de-identified and limited patient-level data sets. Organized by Datavant and their partners, the database is available to public health and policy researchers to further investigate COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare and socio-economic outcomes. Read More

TORONTO – Lumeto, the Toronto-based immersive learning company deploying its learning platform Involve XR to frontline workers, announced that its healthcare training software has been selected to be administered to universities and colleges across Ontario. Read More

OTTAWA – Medical students at the University of Ottawa have created an official new module for the MD curriculum that addresses skin colour diversity in diagnosing and treating dermatoses. The fully bilingual self-learning module (SLM) on skin of colour dermatology will coincide with the dermatology unit offered during second-year pre-clerkship and became available to MD students in May. Read More

OTTAWA – The University of Ottawa and Wesley Clover International have launched Alacrity Ottawa, a new technology business program. Together, uOttawa and Wesley Clover will educate, train and support engineering graduates with mentorship and investment opportunities aimed at fostering a pipeline of new Canadian tech startups. Read More

TORONTO – York University and Greater Toronto Area (GTA) health sector and local government leaders are signalling positive momentum and growing support for a new School of Medicine at York that will focus on training family and community doctors in an integrated setting. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – There has always been a need to show the qualitative value of healthcare programs. The current economic climate has created even more pressure to show value in monetary terms (quantitative) that executives will understand. What happens when there is a need for a healthcare improvement program, but no budget is available or the budgets have been reduced significantly? Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly developing and is poised to make a huge impact on healthcare delivery and patient care. This online course – from NIHI and McMaster University – will help participants understand AI, its potential for business, and the opportunities for its implementation in healthcare. Read More

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – St. Joseph’s Care Group (SJCG) and iMD Health are partnering to make it easier for clients, families, and staff to find up-to-date resources and information on a wide and constantly growing range of healthcare topics. iMD Health is Canada’s largest digital patient education platform. It brings together content on more than 2,100 medical topics in a simple-to-use format with over 80,000 resources that include articles, images, infographics and short videos. Read More