Repost- Sessional Lecturer-MHI1002H Complexity of Clinical Care for Non-Clinicians

Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:

• Enhance understanding of the structure and function of the Canadian healthcare system and roles of various health professionals.
• Improve awareness and understanding of the complexity of clinical data collection, processing, management, and use, throughout the patient/consumer-health professional encounter.
• Understand the culture of healthcare, and how culture may influence care delivery and information processing by health professionals across settings.
• Increase awareness of health professionals’ experience with information systems and barriers to successful adoption.
• Afford appreciation of the interaction among organizational processes, information sharing and impact on care delivery and health professionals experience in various clinical care settings.
• Enhance understanding of the powerful role that informatics plays in clinical healthcare.

Course Details

• Class schedule: Weekly sessions from 6:10 pm to 9 pm on Tuesdays between September 8 and December 1, 2026.
• Delivery mode: In-person
• Estimated enrolment: 70
• Estimated TA support: None

Qualifications

• A PhD or Masters level education clinician with experience in clinical and health informatics;
• A robust understanding of clinical/clinician work processes, as influenced by health informatics and related technology;
• A robust understanding and experience with the Canadian healthcare system, it's funding, structure, politics, organizational infrastructure and digital health policy frameworks.
• Past teaching experience related to health informatics, policy and health systems, preferably at the graduate level;
• Prior experience in curriculum development and adult teaching-learning methods;
• Comfortable with electronic teaching tools such as Learning Management Systems (e.g., Canvas), PowerPoint, as well as on-line collaboration tools (Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Boards, Webinars, or Video-conferencing).

Duties

Course co-instructor for a professional graduate course using competency-based learning and assessment methods. Must be accessible to students outside of classroom hours. Available evenings and weekends.

Schedule

Sessional Lecturer I: $9,997.47
Sessional Lecturer I - Long Term: $10,699.21
Sessional Lecturer II: $10,699.21
Sessional Lecturer II - Long Term: $10,953.96
Sessional Lecturer III: $10,953.96
Sessional Lecturer III - Long Term: $11,228.90

Application

Please send your CV and cover letter, outlining additional value you will bring to teaching the course via e-mail to ihpme.cupe.unit3@utoronto.ca.