Partnerships in Action
The health-care environment is changing, requiring partnerships, teams and collaborations that span our community and the globe. Schulich Medicine & Dentistry is widely recognized as facilitating a collegial working environment. As you’ll see here, we are taking strategic, concrete steps to strengthen the collaborative, interdisciplinary partnerships that will help us realize our goals.
Partnerships in Numbers
Working with communities to attract more students from Southwestern Ontario
MD students from Southwestern Ontario in 2023
Enhancing interdisciplinarity in our graduate programming
MD students from Middlesex County in 2023
Strengthening learner assessment
MD students from Essex County in 2023
Strengthening our relationship with the Windsor Campus
MD students added to Windsor Campus in 2023
Forging key partnerships in academia and industry
of 24 major partners who joined the Canadian Hub for Health Intelligence and Innovation in Infectious Diseases (HI3), spearheading development of vaccines, therapeutics and other innovations to combat infectious diseases
Distributed education Academies across the region, encompassing hospital, clinic and health care settings
Embedding learners in rural and regional communities
Total number of medical students learning and training at partner sites across the region in 2023
Enhancing interdisciplinarity in our graduate programming
Number of learners doing residency training across the region in 2023
Strengthening learner assessment
Learners doing clerkship training (year 3 of MD program) across the region in 2023
Learners doing elective training (pre-clerkship and year 4 of MD program) across the region in 2023
Learners participating in “Discovery Week” (year 1 of MD program) across the region in 2023
Distributed education partnerships with communities stretching more than 400 km from Windsor to Tobermory
Partnerships in Action
Program brings together scientists and policymakers to improve communication, build relationships
October 27, 2023
How can we improve the flow of new knowledge from research into policymaking? Postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Michaels, PhD, took part in a program that brings scientists and policymakers together to break down stereotypes.Multidisciplinary initiative to track influenza, other viruses in wastewater
August 24, 2023
Expansion of sewage surveillance project gets funding boost from provinceWestern signs nuclear research agreement with energy consultant Kinectrics
August 16, 2023
The partnership agreement focuses on health, energy, security and the environment. Collaborations include student training and internships, research and development activities, and knowledge mobilization.$5.1 million donation boosts open hardware approach to motor neuroscience
August 15, 2023
A donation made by the Azrieli Foundation is taking an open-science concept to the next level, by enabling researchers across Canada to access and utilize electrodes developed and tested at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry and Emory University.Seven interdisciplinary teams receive funding to solve research questions
August 10, 2023
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry researchers are hoping to unlock some of the major health challenges of our day, thanks to funding from the Collaborative Research Seed Grant (CRSG) program.Medical Innovation Fellowship team creates adjustable socket to increase amputees’ comfort
July 14, 2023
Vessl Prosthetics founders Oleksiy Zaika and Sydney Robinson just clicked from day one, and now their startup is improving the quality of life for amputeesThe face of hope: Schulich Medicine fellow restores lives in war-torn Ukraine
May 03, 2023
Dr. Ivanka Nebor and a team of U.S. surgeons and nurses travelled to Ukraine to perform critical reconstructive surgeries on patients wounded by warWestern establishes pioneering $4M endowed chair for urologic cancer research
April 27, 2023
Chin-Hardie Chair in Urologic Oncology bolsters Western’s leadership in developing life-saving interventions for cancers of the bladder, kidney and prostate.
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