Education & Training

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Humber College and William Osler Health System (Osler) have launched a new Academic Practice Partnership that will advance nursing education, scholarship and research between the two institutions. It’s a first of its kind partnership between a Canadian college and a health system for nursing education, scholarship, practice and the advancement of excellence in patient care. Read More

OTTAWA – NTS Virtual Health Solutions, the leading provider of telepharmacy services in Canada, is now implementing a simulation software training solution in colleges across Canada to help pharmacy technician students learn about sterile compounding. Read More

QUEBEC CITY – During the 2023 International Congress on Academic Medicine (ICAM), held from April 15-17th, McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and Logibec presented a workshop that highlighted the power of partnership in developing a platform that is intuitive, mobile, and efficient for competency-based medical education (CBME). Read More

HAMILTON, Ont. – Have you ever wondered how a medical student becomes an operating room surgeon? Dr. Eddie Matsumoto (pictured on left) knows. He’s a renowned urologist, a robotic surgeon and director of the Fellowship Program within the Division of Urology at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. Read More

HALIFAX – Starting in September, a new, flexible online learning option will be available to Nova Scotians who want to become medical laboratory technologists. Up to 40 people will be accepted to the program, created through the Province’s partnership with the Michener Institute of Education at Toronto’s University Health Network. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Healthcare organizations are rich in data. The development of effective data visualization tools empowers healthcare leaders to make data-driven decisions. Adopting interactive and user-friendly dashboards facilitates the interpretation of data to gain insights to benefit the organization’s performance. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – The National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) is offering a new short course on the HR crisis in the health workforce. Register now for any of the Digital Credential Courses from NIHI, designed to bring healthcare managers up-to-date on the latest developments so they’re able to bring new skills and insights to their organizations. Read More

OTTAWA – Algonquin College and Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) are teaming up to provide students with valuable hands-on experience to prepare them for working with a real electronic health record (EHR). As part of the College’s digital health programs, they are using MEDITECH Expanse to teach EHR configuration, workflows, collaboration, and security in lab sessions this semester. Read More

WATERLOO, Ont. – Are you an innovator seeking to market your product in the Canadian healthcare sector? Or a hospital manager, engineer or scientist looking to test new equipment? It is up to the quality and regulatory representatives of an organization to understand and apply the regulations and standards to their products. Read More

SYDNEY, N.S. – Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston (pictured) says his government will invest $58.9 million to develop a new medical school at Cape Breton University by fall 2025. The medical school will be the second in the province and is expected to graduate 30 doctors a year, in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s faculty of medicine. Read More