Engineering and technology
News | Wednesday, September 16, 2026
U of T research finds AI scribes save doctors’ time and may ease administrative burden
Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes can reduce the time physicians spend documenting patient visits by 69.1% during simulated primary care appointments, according to new research led...
News | Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Connaught project aims to develop framework to help hospitals address health-care inequities
A developing project by Myrtede Alfred aims to build a modelling approach to identify equity issues and reduce adverse outcomes for racialized patients in Canadian hospitals.
News | Wednesday, November 12, 2025
IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests
For Paige McFarlane (EngSci 2T5, BME PhD student) biomedical engineering was the perfect middle ground between two paths. “Where I come from, there’s this...
News | Wednesday, April 17, 2024
U of T Engineering PhD candidate wants to improve sustainable, cost-effective treatment of Ontario’s drinking water
Growing up in a small neighbourhood in Cameroon, Maeva Che was aware of challenges of accessing clean drinking water. “Experiencing that exposure...