CHSE Mission Statement

The mission of the Continuing Health Sciences Education Program is to provide educational opportunities to health care professionals to assist them to engage in life long learning pertinent to their professional activities.

The main objective of the program is the provision of high quality educational opportunities to our Health Sciences faculty, students and educators as well as other health care professionals locally, regionally, provincially, nationally and internationally. This objective supports the McMaster University and Faculty of Health Sciences commitment to training professionals in a wide range of health care disciplines. The role of the CHSE Program is to assist health care professionals in identifying their educational needs for lifelong learning and facilitating access to opportunities that will have a positive impact on improving knowledge and skills for the health professional through exposure to balanced, evidence-based information. This will be fostered in a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) environment that promotes the tenets of inter-professional cooperation, commitment to the public and communities we serve, accountability responsibility, integrity, respect and excellence.

CHSE Objectives

• Ensure that the provision of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities offered through the
  McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences meet or exceed the standards set by the University, guided by
  the policies and standards of professional health care organizations and regulatory bodies involved in the
  promotion of life long learning within the health care disciplines.
• Expand expertise to provide services to individuals, programs, faculty/departments interested in mounting a broad range of CE activities in new forums such as certificate or diploma programs, on-line courses, educational conferences and events.
• Increase the availability of offerings across departments and schools and throughout the learning continuum, while creating new institutional alliances, and business partnerships.
• Improve record keeping and data base documentation to provide the clinical programs and university faculty consultative support in defining and fulfilling their life long learning needs.
• Improve customer service to provide administrative operations that are of high-quality, proactive, responsive, innovative, and leading edge.
• Raise the profile and reputation of the CHSE Program to attract clients and compete in the internal and external marketplace for delivery of CE.
• Generate revenue to cover direct and indirect operating expenses, fund program improvements and offset central overhead costs.