The Michener Institute of Education at UHN offers a new full-time program to meet the needs of the healthcare system for digitally-literate health professionals.
The new Digital Health and Data Analytics Program is designed to be pragmatic, practical and job oriented – anticipating the needs of the workplace of the future and using the best education science and methodologies to meet those needs. A combination of in-class teaching and hands-on learning at high-profile public institutions and businesses will give graduates the skills and knowledge to care for patients in an increasingly machine and data-driven healthcare environment.
“I entered Michener’s Digital Health and Data Analytics Program as a frontline clinician with minimal experience in data science, but a keen interest in technology,” says Theatania Maceda, a first-year student in the program. “The instructors are experts in their fields and the material they present is information that I know will help me promote high-quality healthcare services integrated with data-driven strategies.”
Key components of the curriculum include:
- Digital health, including virtual care, simulation and virtual reality
- Data science, including the analysis and use of clinical data
- Machine learning, AI and robotics, including personalized medicine and ethics
- Project management, product development and change management
- Design thinking, including user experience
- Hands-on learning, including practicums and placements
The program is geared toward healthcare providers, graduate students and IT professionals who want to advance their career in healthcare and work on cutting edge digital, analytics and AI healthcare initiatives. The program is delivered entirely online. Students can sub-specialize in areas such as artificial intelligence and robotics, and can exit after four successful semesters, having met their Post-Diploma Certificate requirements. Those students continuing with the program will have two semesters of workplace practicum experience in addition to a possible sub-specialty course in order to complete the six-semester Advanced Diploma program.
Interested candidates can email dhda@michener.ca for more information.
As Canada’s only “school within a hospital” dedicated exclusively to healthcare education, Michener is uniquely positioned to prepare healthcare professionals in these emerging fields. Michener’s new program will support healthcare professionals at every point in their career pathway through virtual learning, workplace learning, data simulation and modelling, micro-credentialing and collaboration with other institutions.
