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Returning 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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New research from NOSM faculty member
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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An echo across the North
Dr. Bryan MacLeod has seen first hand how the shortage of doctors in Northern Ontario effects both patients and clinicians in the region. That’s why when he heard the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care was looking to establish an ECHO Hub focused on chronic pain in Ontario, he knew he wanted to be a part of it. “Chronic pain is such a common and debilitating condition, and there’s very few specialists or experts, so this is one way of providing care that hasn’t traditionally been available in rural communities,” says MacLeod, Medical Director of the Chronic Pain Management Program at St. Joseph’s Care Group...
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