Education & Training

WINDSOR, Ont. – Windsor Regional Hospital and the University of Windsor are exploring a potential partnership around a new health and innovation park on lands purchased for the new future Windsor/Essex Acute Care Hospital. “Research and Education has always been one of the main drivers behind the need for a new acute care hospital in the region,” said David Musyj (pictured), WRH president and CEO. Read More

OTTAWA – The federal government has announced an investment of $31.1 million over six years for the Health Research Training Platform (HRTP). The HRTP is comprised of 13 unique training programs that bring together researchers from different hospitals and universities, with a view to increase Canada’s capacity to conduct research on specific disease areas and health challenges. Read More

TORONTO – With the healthcare sector short on skilled employees qualified to handle, the capture and management of clinical data collected by sites, Seneca is launching Essentials of Clinical Data Management and Electronic Data Capture (EDC), a 14-week online course designed to help fill this gap. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – The Health HR shortage has become a crisis. Retention is the key to survival for organizations in the healthcare system. We need to act now to retain and engage our valuable workforce. Learn how to retain staff with 3 strategies you and your organization can implement immediately and demonstrate a Return on Investment (ROI) to your leadership team. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Cybersecurity is the most pressing technology issue facing health organizations. The question is not whether a given facility will be attacked, but when.* Public and private sector organizations in Canada and around the world are under increasing pressure to protect themselves, sensitive information, client information and critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. Read More

SUDBURY, Ont. – A brand new $27-million medical innovation centre has opened at Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury. The Labelle Innovation and Learning Centre is a world-class facility where existing and future healthcare professionals will be able to train and learn new and innovative medical procedures. Read More

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Theator, the creator of Surgical Intelligence, announced a new partnership with the Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS), the association empowering General Surgeons to improve patients’ lives through advocacy, education and research. Through this partnership, CAGS will create a new training and coaching program for its members leveraging Theator’s Surgical Intelligence Platform. Read More

TORONTO – The Rotman School of Management’s Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and Life Sciences (GEMBA-HLS) is designed to develop strategic leaders in the $8-trillion global healthcare industry, where the frontiers are always advancing. Read More

KINGSTON, Ont. – Queen’s University will introduce two new micro-credentialing programs this fall after receiving more than $500,000 from the Ontario Micro-credentials Challenge Fund. The funding will help create a certificate in both the Smith School of Business and Centre for Neuroscience Studies (CNS). Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Healthcare is a growing area of business, and new medical device and system innovations are emerging. The regulations and standards in the area of medical devices are trying to keep up with product innovations but are written with hardware concepts in mind. It is up to the quality and regulatory representatives of an organization to understand and apply the regulations and standards to their products. There are some key ways of approaching this area of quality and regulatory in medical devices with a pragmatic mindset and flexible way of thinking that can save time and effort. Read More