In-person, 4-6 pm, March 12, 24, and 31, 2026
CHEB, rooms C140 and C150

Health care innovation is an interprofessional endeavour by which a gap in the health care system is fixed by identifying a product or process. It is interprofessional because it requires considering the needs and perspectives of multiple stakeholders when solving a problem. For example, creating and implementing a new surgical medical device involves consulting and working with surgeons, nurses, biomedical engineers, manufacturers, and procurement specialists, just to name a few. Often, the founders of these innovations are health care providers who have experienced or seen the problem themselves. Developing innovation as a skill at the trainee stage will better equip future health care providers to identify problems, come up with creative solutions, and create action plans to implement them.

In this mini-course, students will learn tangible skills in how to identify health care problems, and work in interprofessional teams to come up with solutions and a plan to validate the need for and feasibility of their solutions. The course will include workshops on design thinking, validation, and pitching, as well as a hands-on health innovation challenge, where student teams will identify and solve a health care problem.

Apply Here: https://www.dal.ca/faculty/interprofessional-education/programs---initiatives/mini-courses.html

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