Launchfire and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Receive International Communicator Award
Launchfire, a leader in game-based marketing programs, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) win a 2021 Communicator Award in the category of Individual-Contests & Promotions for their online advertising and marketing work in creating The NOSM Trivia Challenge. With more than 6,000 entries received from across the United States and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals. The NOSM Trivia Challenge provided participants the opportunity to answer educational trivia questions on health equity in Northern...
> Read More10th Annual Northern Constellations focuses on physician wellness and recognizes outstanding NOSM faculty
Faculty at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) came together to share, network and celebrate its pan-Northern community at Northern Constellations. This was the School’s 10thannual Northern Constellations faculty development conference held Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1, 2021. With close to 1,800 faculty distributed across 800,000 km2 in more than 90 communities, Northern Constellations was developed in 2012 as a way to unite the School’s dispersed faculty who are critical to the delivery of medical education at NOSM. This year’s agenda explored the topic of physician burnout and the need for wider organization...
> Read MoreConstellation of Shining Stars
A constellation is a group of stars that form an easily recognizable pattern to help people navigate using the night sky. Constellation is a symbolic reference not only for NOSM students and faculty, but the many people and communities of Northern Ontario that play a role in NOSM’s achievements and success. If you ask anyone involved in advocating for the creation of NOSM—and there were many—they will tell you it was their idea. And they would be right. The School was created in the North, by the North, for the North by all who advocated for a solution to health-care disparities and to address the severe doctor shortage in North...
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