The goal of the Communications and External Relations Unit at NOSM University is to provide effective internal and external communications services to ensure its corporate profile accurately and positively reflects the University’s guiding principles of high standards in education, research, community engagement, and operation.
Specifically, the unit is responsible for the University’s website content, media relations, and an annual Report to Northern Ontario. The unit also handles long-term strategic communications planning, special events promotion, and internal communications consulting, and implementation of initiatives.
We are always prepared to respond to requests for interviews, background information, and expert commentators. The Unit supports searches for news and information about the organization.
Press Kit
Use our Content
Our team produces a wide range of stories, articles, videos, and photos through its various channels. We invite you to republish these articles or content for free.
- Media Portal: Find NOSM University logos, images, and B-roll.
- President’s Reports
- The NOSM Challenge: Strategic Plan 2025
- Leadership and Administration
- Background
When republishing, kindly note the following guidelines:
- We ask that none of our content is edited, with the exception of relative changes to time, location, or editorial style. For example, it’s no problem to change “yesterday” to “last week,” etc.
- If you publish online, we kindly ask that you link to the original source. For example, if the content is from The Scope, we ask that you link to nosm.ca/thescope.
- We ask that none of our materials be sold separately.
- Others?
If you have any questions or concerns about using our content, please don’t be shy to get in touch with us
An Award-Winning Team!
NOSM and Launchfire, a leader in game-based marketing programs, won the Arcturus Award the 2021 Vega Digital Awards in the Marketing Effectiveness category for their online advertising and marketing work in creating The NOSM Trivia Challenge.
NOSM and Launchfire, a leader in game-based marketing programs, won a 2021 Communicator Award in the category of Individual-Contests & Promotions for their online advertising and marketing work in creating The NOSM Trivia Challenge.
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine was awarded a Gold Award of Excellence by the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) in recognition of the School’s 10th anniversary “Be Active with NOSM” initiative, which took place on September 23, 2015.
NOSM’s Communications Unit has been awarded two Gold Quill Awards of Merit from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The 2016 award recognizes the School’s promotion of the Standardized Patient (SP) program under the Digital Communication category and the 2015 award recognizes the communication campaign Give the Gift of Appreciation: NOSM’s Staff Awards of Excellence under the Special Events – Internal category.