The Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) is pleased to announce the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) has voted to continue full accreditation of the School’s Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) program for a five-year term. The Office of CEPD underwent an Accreditation Site Visit at both NOSM’s East Campus in Sudbury and the West Campus in Thunder Bay in November 2011. NOSM Dean Dr. Roger Strasser recently received a letter from CACME confirming the positive outcome, which reinforces the calibre of the program. The program will be reassessed in 2017.
A cancer prevention research project involving Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) faculty members in partnership with 10 First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario has garnered attention from the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. The team’s project, titled “Engaging First Nations Women in Cervical Cancer Screening: Assessing Factors Related to Screening and Uptake of Self-Sampling,” has resulted in the team being chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Innovation Award. “Our team has been able to develop a respectful cancer prevention research study with our collaborating First Nations partners. It is very exciting that this process is recognized along with the science in this project at a provincial level,” says NOSM faculty member Dr. Marion Maar, a Medical Anthropologist and co-Principal Investigator on the project.