Innovation
Innovation
Advancing health professions education through responsible innovation, emerging technologies, and evidence-informed practice to improve educational and healthcare outcomes.
About
Innovations advances the University's commitment to educational innovation, digital transformation, research, and the responsible application of emerging technologies.
The initiative brings together students, faculty, researchers, healthcare professionals, industry, and strategic partners to explore and apply emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR).
Within health professions education, these technologies support new approaches to experiential and simulation-based learning, clinical reasoning, interprofessional education, digital health, research, and healthcare innovation.
Beyond technology, Innovations & Metaverse provides an interdisciplinary environment where ideas are explored, developed, evaluated, and translated into real-world applications, creating meaningful educational, healthcare, and societal impact.
Strategic Objectives
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Transform Education through Emerging Technologies
Integrate and evaluate AI, immersive technologies, digital learning, and simulation to enhance teaching, learning, assessment, clinical reasoning, collaboration, and student engagement.
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Advance Health Professions Education
Apply innovative and evidence-informed approaches to strengthen competency development, interprofessional learning, clinical decision-making, patient safety, and readiness for contemporary healthcare practice.
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Develop Future-Ready Learners & Educators
Build capabilities in AI and digital literacy, innovation, design thinking, entrepreneurship, educational technology, adaptability, and responsible technology use among students and faculty.
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Advance Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Promote interdisciplinary research, experimentation, prototyping, and knowledge translation, enabling ideas to progress into evidence-informed solutions with educational, healthcare, and societal impact.
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Drive Responsible Digital Transformation
Advance technology through an ethical, secure, accessible, sustainable, and human-centered approach, with appropriate attention to privacy, safety, academic integrity, and responsible AI.
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Strengthen Strategic & Global Partnerships
Build local and international collaborations with academic institutions, healthcare organizations, government, industry, technology partners, and innovation ecosystems to advance research, knowledge exchange, and innovation.
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Measure Impact & Drive Continuous Improvement
Evaluate initiatives through learning outcomes, educational effectiveness, competency development, research and innovation outputs, stakeholder experience, and implementation impact to inform continuous improvement.
Activities
The list of Innovation activities will be updated soon.
Innovation at a Glance
Resources
Resources for Innovation will be updated soon.
Media
The photo gallery, in-action videos and testimonials for Innovation will be updated soon. Photographs of SIDC activities are in the SIDC photo gallery.