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Summer 2025 Sessional Lecturer: LMP2353H Introduction to AI in Healthcare

Date Posted: 03/17/2025
Closing Date: 04/07/2025, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 42201
Job Category: Sessional Instruction
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Lab. Medicine & Pathobiology
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

 

Description:

Artificial Intelligence will transform the way health care is delivered, how disease is diagnosed and treated, how the business of healthcare is managed, and how health research and discovery is conducted in the coming years. Recent focus on the application of artificial intelligence to health and medicine has primarily been on the development of new algorithms and technologies. Capturing value from these algorithms and technologies requires an interdisciplinary approach, engaging health and health science professionals in the design and implementation of the products and services that utilize the algorithms and technologies.

 

In this module students will be introduced to the vocabulary of artificial intelligence, basic concepts for the design of solutions that use AI, key challenges and issues in its implementation in health and medicine and frameworks for identifying opportunities for AI and designing with it.
 

Estimated course enrollment:  ~ 30 students 
 

Estimated TA support: not applicable

 

Class schedule:  2-hour seminar-style workshops; occurring Thursdays (time to be determined)

 

Sessional dates of appointment:  May 2025 – August 2025

 

Salary:  

Sessional Lecturer I - $4,728.95
Sessional Lecturer I – Long Term -$4,965.40
Sessional Lecturer II - $5,060.88
Sessional Lecturer II – Long Term - $5,163.31
Sessional Lecturer III - $5,181.38
Sessional Lecturer III – Long Term - $5,285.01
 

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

 

Minimum qualifications:  Masters degree with equivalent professional and/or academic experience is preferred.

 

Description of duties:  Preparation and delivery of course content, including seminars; creation of courseware; the development and administration of assignments, marking and evaluation of proposals, reports and reflections, maintenance of reasonable hours of student contact outside of scheduled contact hours, supervision of day-to-day work of project groups

 

Application instructions:  Please submit application using the following form: LMP2353H: Introduction to AI in Healthcare (0.25 FCE)

 

CAUTION: This ad is “posted only” to the U of T CUPE 3902 Unit 3 job board. Please see the information directly above for the application instructions; applications submitted via the "Apply Now" button on this page will NOT be considered for this position.

 

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.
 

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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