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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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NOSM’s Class of 2012 Matches 100% to Residency Programs
On March 6, 2012, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) received notice that all undergraduate medical students in the 2012 graduating class successfully matched to Canadian residency programs on their first attempt. This is the third time that NOSM is the only Canadian medical school in more than ten years to have all students matched in the first round of matches of the Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS). "What an exciting time for our fourth-year MD students! Not only have the Northern Ontario School of Medicine's medical students obtained entry into their first-choice residency programs, but they have also showed...
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NOSM Board of Directors Holds Regular Meeting
Using a combination of video- and tele-conference connectivity across Northern Ontario, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) held a regular meeting of the Board of Directors on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Members of the Board received a presentation on the School's upcoming MD program Accreditation Site Visit on March 18-21, 2012 from NOSM's Director of Equity and Quality, Kate Beatty. The Directors received reports from several Board Committees, including the Finance and Audit, Quality Monitoring, Executive, Governance, Nominating, and Advancement Committees. The Directors also reviewed the Financial Report for the peri...
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Canadian University Collaborative is chosen as one of four in world to lead health education reform
Five Canadian universities have been chosen in a prominent international competition to represent North America as one of 4 global innovation collaboratives to work with the prestigious U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) on a project to lead innovation in health education across the globe. "This is an exciting opportunity for health professions and medical schools across Canada to help lead a global conversation about the ways we can improve health education," said David Naylor, President, University of Toronto, and member of the Lancet Commission. "This was an exceptionally competitive selection process and the strength of our proposal...
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Honouring Excellence in the Categories of Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership, Team Effort and Team Player
On February 9, 2012, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) celebrated the achievements of the School's staff members and paid tribute to the important work that all NOSM staff do in pursuit of Innovative Education and Research for a Healthier North . The Staff Awards of Excellence are held annually. Outstanding staff members are nominated by their colleagues, managers, faculty members, Board members, and NOSM learners, and a volunteer judging panel oversees the selection of the recipient(s). There are five categories in which staff are nominated and then selected for Awards of Excellence: Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership...
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Collaboration Explores Prevention of Infectious Diseases in Aboriginal Communities
Researchers from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine are working to create vaccines that could prevent the spread of two infectious diseases among Aboriginal populations across country, and particularly in Northern Ontario. Working alongside the National Research Council (NRC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), researchers hope to develop a vaccine for the potentially fatal Haemophilus Influenzae Type A and Helicobacter pylori infection. A description and the work being conducted on these two diseases follow: Haemophilus Influenzae Type A Haemophilus influenzae often lives in its host undetected and then spreads to ...
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