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Program Requirements

The cores of this 30-credit program are two-fold. Firstly, two innovation courses are offered by the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Department of Experimental Surgery (EXSU 620-Surgical Innovation & 621-Surgical Innovation 2) and supporting courses are delivered by the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Department of Surgery with some sessions in those courses provided by external partners: Local Industry (Regulatory & IP), the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) (lean start-up), Concordia University (software design), and L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) (prototyping). Secondly, fundamental business and management courses provided by the School of Continuing Studies (³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ) and JMSB are taken concurrently and reinforce the innovation project team experience. Students embark on a hospital-based needs finding process by observing all aspects of clinical activity in their focus themes. The trainees learn basic prototyping skills, start-up organization, and project management. This is supplemented by a basic statistics course and an introduction to the current status of biomedical research innovation. This graduate diploma then gives a business-oriented training in the surgical innovation process.

Required Courses (15 credits)

12 credits in:

• CORG 556 Managing and Engaging Teamwork (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : Skills and knowledge to work better in teams, to leverage team strengths and avoid or resolve obstacles to build effective teamwork. Topics include: team development, building trust, decision-making in teams, resolving team conflicts and enhancing creativity in groups.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.

• EXSU 619 The Hospital Environment (3 credits)

  Offered by: Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Experimental Surgery : The process of surgical innovation and hands-on skills necessary to work within a multi-disciplinary team in the creation of a novel, need driven, and marketable prototype used in the care of the surgical patient. This is second of a 3 part course introducing concepts and performing needs analyses focusing on the hospital environment and the close contact with its structure and patients.

  Terms: Fall 2023

  Instructors: Aoude, Ahmed (Fall)

  • Corequisite: EXSU 620

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

  • Restriction: Course requires entry to surgical theatre; this is subject to hospital approval.

  • 1) Students may be subject to interview.

  • 2) Language of instruction: English, French available.

  • 3) Minimum number 6, maximum 30

  • 4) Subject to completion of medical/immunization record.

  • 5) Professional conduct and dress required at all times in hospital visits when in potential contact with patients.

• EXSU 620 Surgical Innovation 1 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Experimental Surgery : The process of surgical innovation and acquisition of hands-on skills necessary to work within a multi-disciplinary team in the creation of a novel, need driven, and marketable prototype used in the care of the surgical patient. This is the first of a 3 part course introducing concepts and performing needs analyses.

  Terms: Fall 2023

  Instructors: Barralet, Jake; Mwale, Fackson (Fall)

  • Corequisite(s): EXSU 619

  • Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructors.

  • Restriction(s): Course requires entry to surgical theatre; this is subject to hospital approval.

  • 1) Students may be subject to interview.

  • 2) Contact hours 46.5 , 31.5 hours lectures, 15 hours workshops and hospital visits.

  • 3) Language of instruction: English, French available.

  • 4) Minimum number 6, maximum 30

  • 5) Subject to completion of medical requirements/immunization record.

  • 6) Professional conduct and dress required at all times in hospital visits when in potential contact with patients.

• EXSU 621 Surgical Innovation 2 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Experimental Surgery : This course builds on key concepts and needs screening delivered and generated in EXSU 620 to develop hands-on skills necessary to work within a multi-disciplinary team in the creation of a novel, need driven, and marketable prototype used in the care of the surgical patient.

  Terms: Winter 2024

  Instructors: Barralet, Jake (Winter)

  • Prerequisite(s): EXSU 620

  • Restriction(s): Course requires entry to surgical theatre, this is subject to hospital approval.

  • Students may be subject to interview.

  • Contact hours 47 consisting of 23 hours lectures, 24 hours hospital visits and presentation.

  • Language of instruction: English, French available.

  • Minimum number 6, maximum 20.

  • Subject to completion of medical requirements/immunization record.

  • Professional conduct and dress required at all times in hospital visits when in potential contact with patients.

And:

3 credits from the following:

• EDPE 575 Statistics for Practitioners (3 credits)

  Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych (Faculty of Education)

  Overview

  Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Understanding and interpreting basic statistical procedures used in basic and applied research, including graphs, measures of central tendency and variability, hypothesis testing, and correlations, t-tests, and basic ANOVA designs.

  Terms: Winter 2024

  Instructors: Robinson, Kristy (Winter)

  • Prerequisite EDPE 602

• EPIB 507 Biostats for Health Sciences (3 credits)

  Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Overview

  Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical, epidemiologic, and other health research. Topics include: methods of describing data, statistical inference for means, statistical inference for proportions, non-parametric statistics, correlation and introduction to linear regression.

  Terms: Fall 2023, Summer 2024

  Instructors: Douwes-Schultz, Dirk (Fall) Levis, Brooke (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

  • Restriction: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, Human Nutrition, Medical Residents, and Clinical Fellows.

  • Course not opened to students registered in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics programs.

  • Due to the intensive nature of this course during the summer session, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day. The standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines apply for sections of this course offered during the Fall or Winter semesters.

• EXSU 606 Statistics for Surgical Research (3 credits)

  Offered by: Surgery (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)

  Administered by: Graduate Studies

  Overview

  Experimental Surgery : Review of statistics for surgical research.

  Terms: Fall 2023

  Instructors: Bouklouch, Yasser (Fall)

  • 2 hours/week

  • Compulsory for students in the Department of Surgery and available to others by permission of the coordinators

Complementary Courses (9 credits)

9 credits from the following:

• CACC 520 Accounting for Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Accountancy : This course covers financial and managerial accounting. The course provides an understanding of the various financial statements as well as cost behaviour, cost/volume/profit relationships, budgets, responsibility accounting and relevant costing.

  Terms: Fall 2023

  Instructors: Cecere, Ralph (Fall)

  • Corequisite: CMS2 500

Or:

9 credits of graduate-level courses taken at Concordia University, chosen in consultation with the program director/adviser.

Elective Courses (6 credits)

6 credits at the 500 lever or higher, taken in consultation with the program director/adviser.

Some courses may be substituted with equivalents at the 500 level or higher if timetabling or background of the student requires it, e.g., prior qualification in accounting.