Sessional Lecturer-MHI2007H - Quantitative Skills in Health Informatics

CUPE Local 3902 (Unit 3) Job Posting

Sessional Lecturer Position

Posting Date : June 24, 2024

Program : Master of Health Informatics (MHI) and Executive Master of Health Informatics (eMHI)

Sessional dates of appointment : Fall 2024, September to December

Course Title : MHI2007H Quantitative Skills in Health Informatics

Course Description :

This course is designed to give students a working knowledge of different types of data in healthcare, health data governance, data privacy, data standards, data quality, and selected applied statistical techniques relevant to healthcare settings.

Through this course, students will review common statistical methods used in health research and get familiarized with using SAS to implement these methods for data analysis.

In addition, students will learn about clinical data sciences. The emphasis will be placed on the fundamental of clinical data sciences, related skills and conceptual understanding of data analytics techniques (Regex, SQL, RapidMiner).

The goal is for students to gain experience in practical statistical and data analytics techniques to handle and manage their daily professional tasks.

Objective :

The goal is for students to gain experience in practical statistical and data analytics techniques to handle and manage their daily professional tasks.

Course Details :

Class schedule : Modular

Estimated enrolment : 70

Estimated TA support : based on enrolment - None

Qualifications :

• PhD or Masters level education in Measurement and Evaluation, Statistics or related field;
• Demonstrated experience conducting research projects requiring quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methodology;
• Experience in design and implementation of data collection instruments and effective methods for communicating research results;
• Experience teaching graduate-level courses, preferably in research methodology and / or statistics related field;
• Demonstrated ability to relate to mature students and facilitate group learning processes;
• Comfortable with electronic teaching tools such as Learning Management Systems (e.g., Quercus), PowerPoint, as well as on-line collaboration tools (Blogs, Wikkis, Discussion Boards, Webinars, or Video-conferencing).

Duties :

• Course instructor for a professional graduate course using competency-based learning and assessment methods.
• Responsible for course design and assessment of student outcomes. Must be accessible to students outside of classroom hours.

Salary : Commensurate with experience and qualifications

Closing date : Friday, July 18, 2024

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14 : 12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

Please Note : Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.