ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014
In 2013-2014 the Michener Institute’s Board of Directors conducted a thorough and thoughtful strategic review, looking for the best possible role for Michener in the Ontario health care and education systems.
Tasked with transforming the Board’s review into strategy was new CEO Maureen Adamson. With a solid track record of transformational leadership in health care and education, Maureen’s first order of business was to take the significant work done by the Board and establish four new strategic directions as the cornerstones of Michener's bold new future.
As a result of this visioning process in 2013-2014, Michener is now poised to become a world class educational institute in the field of applied health science and continuing education. We have reaffirmed the unique value we provide to our health system, and are better positioned than ever to be the provider of innovative educational solutions for our health care partners.
The four strategic directions are described briefly in this Annual Report, but please take some time to read about them in greater detail at www.michenermomentum.ca.
Our strategic gaze turned inward as well last fiscal year. We initiated a “top to bottom” review of key programs offered only by Michener, and as a result, some programs are undergoing redesign to offer students the most innovative and contemporary learning opportunities in Ontario.
We also launched our seniors’ curriculum and other health system improvement measures in 2013-2014. These measures ensure that our graduates are well positioned to respond to health system priorities, and to become the health care leaders of tomorrow. You can read more about those initiatives in the section of this Annual Report called Leaders in Health Learning. We also launched 20 new continuing education courses to further meet the needs of today’s health care system, and ultimately to improve patient outcomes.
We are excited about our future and look forward to another incredible academic and fiscal year.
Maureen Adamson
President and CEO
Cliff Nordal
Chair
Michener's unique value to the Ontario health care system is its ability to rapidly adapt health professional education to meet the health system's evolving and emerging needs. In 2013-2014, we continued to innovate and lead in health education. Please scroll right to read more.
Michener understands that curriculum design must be responsive to unique learning and practice needs across the health care system. As a result, a number of Michener’s programs are undergoing continuous improvements following a thorough review conducted by Cathexis Consulting.
During the 2013-14 academic year, student intake for the Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Program was halted as the program went through a significant redesign. To support the design process, our faculty educators spent hands-on time with patients in a Nuclear Medicine department for several weeks as practitioners, and in turn, clinical educators joined our redesign team to bring their clinical expertise, experience and perspective to actively contribute to the new program model and content. The redesigned program had its first cohort in Fall 2014.
Students took Quality Improvement Modules in conjunction with their second-year summer semester courses to better prepare them for clinical placements and improve their contributions to the health system quality as students and graduates.
Michener has now integrated our joint program with Baycrest Health Sciences - Working with Seniors - permanently into our curriculum. Results from the first cohort of students were very encouraging: nearly 80 per cent of students completed the program feeling that their knowledge and understanding of older adults had increased. This included respecting seniors’ autonomy, avoiding ageism, creating senior-friendly environments and being adaptive and responsive. Michener and Baycrest are now extending the curriculum to Michener graduates and general entry-to-practice healthcare professionals with their Working with Seniors: A Primer offering through Michener’s Continuing Education department.
We work with our partners to identify the latest technological advances and methods used in the clinical environments and incorporate them into our curriculum to better prepare students for the workforce. This past year, new technology in some of our programs included:
The Michener Institute continuously strives to be an industry leader. Michener initiated an Ontario-wide teleconference on March 28, 2014 with the Deans and Chairs for Respiratory Therapy from other institutions. The group was very keen to develop a collective perspective regarding the evaluation of clinical competency (including simulation) and strategized mechanisms for resource sharing. The conference was a success, and served as an excellent collaborative opportunity for Michener. Please click the links below for more Michener achievements and updates from the
2013-14 fiscal year.
Roberta McCammond Student Academic Achievement Award for Radiation Therapy - Caitria Michie, RTT (Class of 2013)
Anne Topple Student Academic Achievement Award is for Nuclear Medicine - Amanda Icasiano, RTNM (Class of 2013)
Meeting the needs of our evolving health care system, Continuing Education introduced more than twenty new courses during the year. These included two new certificate programs: Clinical Management and Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (in partnership with the Canadian Association of Neurophysiological Monitoring). Additional courses were offered to enhance career opportunities for Michener graduates, including such areas as Cardiac Stress testing. Student feedback attested to the quality of our curriculum and teaching and also gave us valuable feedback for continuous improvement which has been a cornerstone for all of our programs. External faculty (of which there are more than 120) also benefitted from the focus on quality with targeted development programs. Finally, access to CE courses was increased with over 70% of courses now available online.
The Michener Institute consistently produces graduates who are in high demand across Ontario and Canada, and in 2013-2014, our students continued to achieve academic and professional success. Please scroll right for examples of student success from the 2013-2014 fiscal year.
EMPLOYMENT SATISFACTION RATES
STUDENT SATISFACTION RATES
GRADUATES REPORTED BEING EMPLOYED
GRADUATE SATISFACTION RATES
WOULD CHOOSE MICHENER AGAIN
MICHENER STUDENTS HOLD AN UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE OR HIGHER
ADVANCED DIPLOMA ENROLMENT
GRADUATE DIPLOMA ENROLMENT
ADVANCED GRADUATE DIPLOMA ENROLMENT
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE (AA & MRI) ENROLMENT
CONTINUING EDUCATION ENROLMENT
CURRENT NUMBER OF STATUS APPOINTMENTS FOR CLINICAL PARTNERS
NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND RECIPIENTS
CLINICAL PARTNERS REGISTERED IN CLINICAL EDUCATORS’ CERTIFICATE WORKSHOPS
CLINICAL PARTNERS RECOGNITION AWARD RECIPIENTS
It was an exciting year for Michener’s clinical partnerships. We strengthened existing collaborations, and created new ones.
| Award | Name | Program | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excellence in Clinical Teaching and Supervision | Ann-Marie McLaren | Chiropody | St. Michael's Hospital - Foot and Wound Clinic |
| Values-in- Action Award | Carina Feuz | Radiation Therapy | University Health Network - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre |
| Values-in- Action Award | Christopher Chernets | Radiological Technology | St. Joseph's Health Hospitals Centre |
| Values-in- Action Award | Christopher Chernets | Radiological Technology | St. Joseph's Health Hospitals Centre |
Thanks to our generous donors, more than $84,000 in scholarships, bursaries and awards was made available to students across all of Michener's academic programs.
Canada Life
Dentons Law
Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories LifeLabs Inc.
Oak Ridges Medical Diagnostic Imaging Breath-by-Breath
Ontario Home Respiratory Services Association Pesce & Associates
OOLab Inc.
ProResp
Respan Products Inc
TD Insurance Meloche Monnex
Trudell Medical Marketing Limited
Sonja Bata
Blair Baxter
Julia Bentley
Paul and Wendy Bertin
Tim Colfe and Cecilia Alfonso Zita Gardner
John and Marzena Hardy Winston Isaac
Helen A. Juhola
Renate Krakauer
Angelo Pesce Rami Rahal Chris Turney
| Assets | $ |
|---|---|
| Short-term investments | 2,567,641 |
| Cash and short-term deposits | 2,269,290 |
| Accounts receivable | 158,717 |
| Prepaid expenses | 335,172 |
| 5,330,820 | |
| Long-term investments | 8,282,277 |
| Property and equipment | 21,384,918 |
| 4,625,615 | |
| Liabilties | |
| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | 4,625,615 |
| Unearned income | 3,136,530 |
| Deferred capital contributions | 16,410,010 |
| 24,172,155 | |
| Liabilties | 10,825,860 |
| 34,998,015 |
| Revenues | $ |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Health and Long Term Care operating grant | 15,972,969 |
| Fees received | 6,844,179 |
| Rental income | 549,526 |
| Sundry other income | 789,582 |
| Scholarship and bursary funds income | 76,367 |
| Investment income | 645,321 |
| 24,877,944 | |
| Expenses | $ |
| Salaries and employee benefits | 17,058,122 |
| Building occupancy costs | 2,153,050 |
| Other operating expenses | 2,246,443 |
| Education programs and support | 2,277,147 |
| Scholarship and bursary awards | 75,228 |
| Excess of revenues over expenses before undernoted | 1,067,954 |
| Depreciation | (2,534,840) |
| Amortization of deferred capital contributions | 2,225,732 |
| Excess of Expenses over Revenues | 758,846 |
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014