Registration for NOSM’s CampMed Now Open
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) maintains a commitment to providing information to rural, remote, Indigenous, and Francophone youth about health careers. This year marks the fourteenth time that NOSM has hosted week-long summer camps for high-school students interested in a career in health care. Formerly known as NOSM’s Health Sciences Summer Camp, CampMed features new branding and a renewed focus on four core learning areas: interprofessionalism, leadership, culture, and clinical skills. Held this coming July 8 – 12, 2019 at NOSM at Laurentian University in Sudbury and from July 15 – 19, 2019 at NOSM at La...
> Read MoreReturning home to Kirkland Lake
The effect of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine on access to quality health care goes beyond doctors. Since its creation in 2007, 135 registered dietitians have graduated from NOSM’s Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP). Two of those graduates, Kelsey MacKinnon and Jasmine Connelly, are now practising in the Kirkland Lake area. MacKinnon, a registered dietitian with the Timiskaming Diabetes Program North at Kirkland & District Hospital, grew up in Cambridge. Her family is from Kirkland Lake, and her parents returned to the community while she was in university. “I had never lived in Northern Ontario fu...
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Health-care providers who undergo monthly cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training achieved or maintained higher-quality CPR skills than those who underwent quarterly or yearly training, according to a new study published in Resuscitation. Nurses from the intensive care unit, operating and emergency rooms, and medical and surgical wards of Health Sciences North Hospital in Sudbury, Ontario, underwent short, workplace-based CPR training sessions at 1, 3, 6 and 12 month intervals to determine the training interval associated with the highest-quality CPR performance at one year. At their baseline assessment, 5 per cent of particip...
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