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Medical Council of Canada Celebrates Centenary Year
On May 29, 2012, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was honoured to host a special reception and faculty development workshop in celebration of the Medical Council of Canada's (MCC) centenary year. To mark this milestone, the MCC is sponsoring events at each of Canada's medical schools. NOSM was the first to be able to congratulate the MCC on 100 years. Representing the MCC at the reception, which included the viewing of a celebration video, was MCC President Dr. Michael Marrin, and MCC Executive Director Dr. M. Michael Ian Bowmer. A workshop titled "The Art of Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions for High-Stakes Exam...
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Engaging Local Researchers and Students in Topics Relating to the People and Communities in Northern Ontario
Earlier this month, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) hosted concurrent research conferences in Thunder Bay at Lakehead University. NOSM's seventh annual Northern Health Research Conference (NHRC) and the 7th Meeting of the Canadian Oxidative Stress Consortium (COSC) attracted over 150 delegates from across the country and around the world. "The Northern Ontario School of Medicine was delighted to host the Northern Health Research Conference and the Canadian Oxidative Stress Consortium meeting concurrently in Thunder Bay this year," said Dr. Greg Ross, NOSM Associate Dean, Research. "Innovative Education and Research for ...
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NOSM Announces New Assistant Dean, Learner Affairs
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Laura Piccinin to the role of Assistant Dean, Learner Affairs. Dr. Piccinin, who has been actively involved in medical education in Northern Ontario for more than a dozen years, is an MD graduate of McMaster University and completed Family and Emergency Medicine residency training in Northeastern Ontario. Dr. Piccinin has taught extensively at the medical undergraduate and postgraduate levels, both academically and clinically in the Emergency Department at Health Sciences North. At NOSM, Dr. Piccinin has been the Assistant Director and Prog...
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NOSM CEPD Program Receives Continued Full Accreditation for Five-Year Term
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine's (NOSM) is pleased to announce the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) has voted to continue full accreditation of the School's Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) program for a five-year term. The Office of CEPD underwent an Accreditation Site Visit at both NOSM's East Campus in Sudbury and the West Campus in Thunder Bay in November 2011. NOSM Dean Dr. Roger Strasser recently received a letter from CACME confirming the positive outcome, which reinforces the calibre of the program. The program will be reassessed in 2017. "Upon presentation of ...
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NOSM Holds Face-to-Face Board Meeting in North Bay
Members Tour North Bay Regional Health Centre, Join Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) for Dinner The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) held its annual Board of Directors face-to-face meeting in North Bay, Ontario from May 10 to May 11, 2012. On the first morning together, NOSM Board members enjoyed a tour of the North Bay Regional Health Centre, where every year NOSM learners undertake training as part of the School's distinctive distributed, community-engaged learning and research model. The new, state-of-the-art hospital provides acute care services to North Bay and surrounding communities, and speci...
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Third Consecutive Year NOSM Receives Honour
On Friday evening, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was presented with its third Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC) Rural Medical Education award. This year's award was given to the Canadian medical school program that has matched the most graduates to rural family medicine programs in the 2011 Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) process. NOSM Dean, Dr. Roger Strasser accepted the award on behalf of the School at a dinner held by the SRPC in Whistler, British Columbia. In 2011, 44% of NOSM's graduating MD class matched to a rural family medicine residency program. Many Northern-trained physicians who hav...
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NOSM Learners to Engage with Thunder Bay Secondary Schools to Promote Health Care Related Careers
This spring, medical students from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) will begin an outreach program through the Ontario Medical Student Association (OMSA), the student section of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). The program, called Altitude: Healthcare Mentoring, is aimed at encouraging students in their final year of secondary school to seriously consider a career in the field of health care. "This program gives us the opportunity to showcase to youth in our community that we were once in their shoes, and that their dream to become medical professionals is obtainable," explained Hilary Bohler, one member of the fiv...
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NOSM Faculty Members Receive Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Innovation Award
A cancer prevention research project involving Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) faculty members in partnership with 10 First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario has garnered attention from the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. The team's project, titled "Engaging First Nations Women in Cervical Cancer Screening: Assessing Factors Related to Screening and Uptake of Self-Sampling," has resulted in the team being chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Innovation Award. "Our team has been able to develop a respectful cancer prevention research study with our collaborating First Nations partner...
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