Education & Training

MONTREAL – The first online bachelor’s degree in nursing in Quebec will be offered at McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing, thanks to the generosity of the Doggone Foundation. The program will be offered in both French and English. Read More

TORONTO – Digital Health Canada announced the addition of five Microsoft Learn tracks to the growing list of accredited programs included in the Digital Health Canada Continuing Education Provider (CEP) program. Read More

TORONTO – You can earn a graduate degree in health law through Osgoode’s Part-time Professional LLM in Health Law. It’s Canada’s leading Professional LLM for lawyers, executives and senior professionals working in the healthcare industry. Read More

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre now provides improved medical education, thanks to the opening of the Ibn Sina Simulation Lab. Simulation education allows healthcare practitioners to safely acquire the skills and experience they need, in a variety of clinical settings. Read More

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – The Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) has opened The Martin and Denise Pick Learning Centre, a multidisciplinary training and education facility outfitted with state-of-the-art training tools and equipment in a simulated patient care environment. Read More

TORONTO – Ontario pharmacists have a little less than a year to get up to speed on weed if they want to practice in the province. The Ontario College of Pharmacists has made cannabis education mandatory in the wake of legalization and in anticipation of legal edibles set to arrive this fall. Read More

OTTAWA – Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa are studying whether improving teamwork and communication among operating room staff can make surgery safer for patients. Studies suggest that over half of surgery complications can be linked to problems with these “soft skills” during operations. Read More

MONTREAL – CHUM and Université de Montréal have announced the creation of the first school of artificial intelligence applied to the health sector from a Francophone environment, the École de l’intelligence artificielle en santé du CHUM (EIAS). Read More

TORONTO – Outsourcing IT services, software and storage has become a core aspect of modern business, which has created new and often unforeseen sources of potential liability. Risks can include costly business interruptions, embarrassing security breaches and permanent data loss. As a healthcare manager or IT professional, you need to know how to effectively and safely navigate through Cloud and SaaS based environments. Read More