The Institute on Medicine’s observation that “health care does not yet reliably transfer best-known science into practice, and processes frequently fail, despite the best intentions of a dedicated and highly skilled workforce” remains as true today as ever.

The Department of Surgery is committed to supporting surgeons’ efforts to provide safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient/family centered care.  The complex adaptive system that defines the current environment in which we practice, with exponential growth of new evidence, introduction of new technologies and ever shifting health system delivery offers exciting opportunities at the same time as it challenges us to think and act in new ways to optimize the care we provide our patients. The Department of Surgery’s  Surgical Quality & Safety committee is committed to discovering with you how to convert aspiration to reality and be national leaders in closing the quality gap in Canada.

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