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For graduate students, the Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Engineering includes a 12-month internship with a hospital or health-care technology company. MEng students can also arrange internships through the University of Toronto Centre for Healthcare Engineering. Additional funding for…
Ontario is investing $6 million in local mental health services to help an estimated additional 4,000 children and youth, and their families each year. Approximately one in five children and youth in Ontario experience a mental health challenge. About 70…
For all the talk about the importance of mental health, it can be hard to access help in Canada. Anyone who has ever sought provincially-funded therapy knows that long wait times are simply part of the package. But several Canadian…
Primary responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following: Creation of a stand-alone software that is able to automatically track the position of a three targets in a movie loop, while also reconstructing the position of the three…
Health Minister Jane Philpott has wrapped up two days of meetings with provincial and territorial counterparts in Vancouver, with the ministers deciding to tackle drug prices, community care and innovation as top priorities. “Today we discussed a plan to work…
“My sense actually, in talking to my counterparts, is that there’s a great appetite in not distracting ourselves too much about the financial conversations,” Canada’s Health Minister, Jane Philpott, told CBC News, “but at this stage, obviously, developing a good working relationship…
Today, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) launched the panel for an upcoming best practice guideline aimed at taking advantage of technology to optimize clinical leadership and health system deliverables. The guideline’s expert panel is…
As the country’s health ministers prepare to meet in Vancouver, Ontario is already saying decisions on changing the health care funding formula should be left for another day. British Columbia Health Minister Terry Lake says B.C. and the Atlantic provinces…
During the election campaign, several U of T experts, including Dr. Samir Sinha and Dr. Danielle Martin, pushed strongly for a national pharmacare program. “I absolutely hope we will be able to work towards a national pharmacare plan at some…
Julia Oosterman, a spokesperson for the Toronto Central CCAC (Community Care Access Centre) noted that in the past five years, the Toronto Central CCAC has faced a 73 per cent increase in the number of medically complex clients who are…
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