Embed in a working hospital. Shadow clinicians. Find the gaps no one's solving. Then build the tools that close them — in 16 weeks at Scarborough Health Network.
Before you write a single line of code, you'll spend time inside a working hospital. You'll shadow nurses during shift change. Sit in on family meetings. Watch a physician explain a diagnosis through an interpreter. You'll see where the system breaks — the discharge instructions nobody reads, the alarm fatigue that desensitizes an entire ICU, the 40-minute documentation burden that follows a 15-minute patient encounter.
That's the starting point. Once you've found a real gap, you build the tool to close it. Summer of Vibes is SHN's flagship student innovation program under the RISE initiative. Students work in focused taskforces with enterprise-grade tools — Figma, Replit, GitHub, OpenAI, Claude, Ollama, SHNRI models, cloud GPU — and ship working prototypes by August. Our 2025 cohort delivered 13 at Grand Demo Day.
The program runs May 6 – August 31 at SHN Centenary Hospital. Paid and volunteer positions. No prior coding experience required.
Same cadence every week. Momentum compounds.
Weekly standup. Set goals. Align with your taskforce. Get unblocked by faculty.
Deep work. Build, code, design, test. Cross-pollinate across taskforces. User-test with real clinicians.
Mandatory. Show what you shipped. Peer and faculty feedback. Pizza.
| 01 | Critical Care Intelligence | Real-time ICU alarm analytics, intelligent alert triage, and decision support for the most acute patients in the hospital. | Tech |
| 02 | Health Equity & Cultural Intelligence | Equity-centred AI for Scarborough's diverse population — SDOH-aware discharge planning, multilingual tools, and culturally responsive care. | Equity |
| 03 | Medical Education & Simulation | AI-powered clinical training tools — OSCE simulation, performance assessment, adaptive learning, and next-gen competency evaluation. | Education |
13 working prototypes. One summer. Grand Demo Day at UTSC.
MD, FRCPC. Critical Care Medicine, SHN. Pioneer in clinical AI and co-founder of Figure 1. Decades of ICU experience building tools that work at the bedside.
MD, MEd, FRCPC. EVP Academics, SHN. Associate Professor, U of T. Pialis Family Chair in Education Research. Founder of the Grover Lab.
BSc, MEd. Research Assistant, Unity Health Toronto. With the Grover Lab since 2017. Medical education and GI research.
HBSc, MSc. Research Coordinator, SHN. Joined the Grover Lab in 2023. Endoscopy education and simulation-based training.
Sixteen weeks. Paid and volunteer positions. No prior coding experience required — just the drive to build.
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