Northern Routes

Residency and Road Trips

Northern Ontario is full of the warm, bright splendor of the summer season: hot, sometimes humid days and cool summer nights with brilliant hues of pink, purple, yellow, and blue in the skies over our backyards. It’s the perfect time for road trips, both for new residents and myself. Summer is the end of the MD program academic year and the beginning of the postgraduate training year. NOSM University welcomes 81 new and returning residents to communities across Northern Ontario this year. The transition into residency can be both exciting and terrifying. As students, we work under close supervision, and that changes in residency. As...

Simply the Best

I hope you have been enjoying the lovely month of June! May was a remarkably busy month for NOSM University. We had many firsts, from the NOSM University Achievement Celebration at Northern Constellations, to a graduation celebration in Thunder Bay, to our inaugural convocation in Sudbury, at which we installed our inaugural Chancellor, Dr. Cindy Blackstock. What a whirlwind of celebrations! Again: my heartfelt congratulations to all our new doctors! As many of you know, NOSM University had a cyber-security incident a few weeks ago. Rest assured that our IT team—the best in my books—is still working around the clock. Th...

A Memorable Year—and Much to Celebrate

This spring, we are emerging from a year like no other. It has been one full year since NOSM University was proclaimed Canada's first independent medical university, and here we are on the cusp of granting our first degrees as a university to MD graduates—a historic moment. In the last year, we also have established a new Board of Governors and a new Senate; we have made leadership changes to reflect our new status, hired our first Provost and in Sudbury, we will be installing our first Chancellor at convocation on Friday, May 26. The shift to one convocation is a necessary one as, no matter where we all are in Northern Ontario, we ...