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Panel presentationNews story1 year 1 week ago

On February 22, 2009, Dr. Yuri Kagolovsky gave a presentation for the panel "Maxing the Educational Experience: Panel on Undergraduate HI Education in Canada" at the ITCH2009 conference in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Informatics aproaches to teaching - virtual realityNews story1 year 19 weeks ago

Second Life 3D virtual world used to train RN students, reinforcing and applying disease and health concepts at Tacoma Community College.

Open access publishingNews story1 year 19 weeks ago

BioMed Central's authors and editors discuss the benefits of open access publishing.

Field Studies Presentations sessionNews story1 year 48 weeks ago

We are hosting a special event at which Conestoga Year 1 Health Informatics students will be presenting detailed information about their Health Informatics Field Studies (formerly Clinical Practicum) experiences. We would like to invite all of the Preceptors, PAC members, Year 2, 3 and 4 and post-graduate certificate students, Faculty, Administration, family members and other interested parties to attend all or part of the presentations. Light refreshments will be served throughout the event. At the end of the presentations there will be an opportunity for general discussion.

Why Not Advance Health Informatics Education Through Our Colleges?News story2 years 13 weeks ago

On Wednesday, November 28, 2007, Dr. Yuri Kagolovsky, MD, MSc and Dr. Stefan V. Pantazi, MD, PhD, gave a presentation about the Health Informatics degree program at Conestoga College. The presentation was recorded and the webcast is available for playback on the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research website.

Interesting book: "How Doctors Think"News story2 years 51 weeks ago

There is an interesting story, a podcast and an excerpt from a new book by a doctor at Harvard Medical School, More

ITCH Conference presentationNews story3 years 1 week ago

Our new Professor, Dr Stefan Pantazi, presented the research paper "The Case for Context-Dependent Dynamic Hierarchical Representations of Knowledge in Medical Informatics" at the ITCH2007 conference "TODAY’S INFORMATION FOR TOMORROW’S IMPROVEMENTS " in Victoria, British Columbia.

Health Informatics Field StudyNews story3 years 1 week ago

The following organizations are currently hosting our Year 1 students for their Health Informatics Field Study:

Upcoming guest lecture - April 13, 11 am, Room 2E06News story3 years 1 week ago

Mr Sherman Quan, one of the COACH 2006 Award winners, will give a presentation about his work as Health Informatician formerly with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and currently with the University Health Network (UHN).

Co-op placements for Summer 2007News story3 years 1 week ago

Congratulations to our students who have already secured their co-op placements for Summer 2007: