Benefits for the Organization

The IMHL is designed to act as a catalyst in developing an integrated and sustainable approach to health, including health promotion, prevention and treatment, with specific impact on key issues in the participants' organizations and communities.

The Anchoring Project, a strategic project which runs throughout the program, engages participants in an activity aimed at affecting significant change within their organization and extending management development into organizational development. Each participant or team takes personal ownership of the issue and strives to bring change to the organization. Participants can also focus their individual and team assignments on issues faced by the organization.

As such, management development becomes organization development and community development and the sponsoring organization or community gains significantly from their sponsorship of participants.

“The modern health care system is complex and provides interesting new challenges to the health professionals who occupy senior leadership roles in its institutions and governance structures.  Traditional training for health professional does not normally address the skills needed to respond to these added demands. The IMHL is uniquely designed to educate health professionals – physicians, nurses and other allied health workers – to gain a stronger understanding of modern health care and to develop the advanced management skills needed to deliver quality health care solutions to diverse segments of the public." - Dr. Abraham Fuks, Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine & IMHL Advisor, McGill University

Here are just a few examples of some of the benefits organizations, communities and countries have received from having participants in the IMHL:

• A public health doctor went from leading the health care planning efforts in a municipality, to assuming health care planning at the provincial level.
• A nurse working in emergency medicine was given increased responsibilities and acts as Director, Surgical Health System in a major urban Health Centre.
• A surgeon created an international organization dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer worldwide.
• A physician from Uganda brought the pedagogy of the program to six other African countries involved in a major initiative on disease prevention in Africa.
• A primary care physician led the move of his major clinic into new facilities with a dramatic improvement in internal relations, in the process renewing his own pleasure in managing.
• The Chief Operating Officer of a US health care alliance was promoted to CEO and with its members leads the transformation to high quality, cost-effective health care.
• A physician working at the country level is now with the World Health Organization in Geneva, her work feeding directly into global health policy.
• A health professional and manager of a major foundation was asked to lead national efforts requiring various sectors and ministries to collaborate.