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Two Northern Ontario communities share successes with recruitment

Sault Ste. Marie and Sioux Lookout are great places to work—and the word is getting out Dr. Mara Boyle didn’t originally think that her career would lead her to family medicine—or to Sioux Lookout. Plans changed when her third year of NOSM University’s MD program brought her to the small town, four hours north of her hometown of Thunder Bay. “I didn’t really want to be a family physician when I arrived in Sioux Lookout in my third year. I thought that I was going to become a specialist,” Dr. Boyle explains. “One of the aspects of working in Sioux Lookout is that you practise a broad scope of family medicine. I found it...

Read about two Northern Ontario communities successes with recruitment.

Meet “Nsidwaamjigan,” ceremonial object created to open NOSM University convocations

On May 26, 2023, hundreds of people stood respectfully in silence, listening to the powerful sounds of Indigenous singing and drumming, waiting for the graduates to appear. Then, as the formal convocation procession began, a carved eagle’s head club emerged, leading the way. The carefully-hewn head is the end of Nsidwaamjigan, the beautiful new ceremonial object that will now open all of NOSM University’s convocation ceremonies. Created by Algonquin artist Bradly (Dreamwalker) MacDonald, a Waskabe (Helper) based in North Bay, Nsidwaamjigan means “it recognizes achievements” in Anishnawbemowin, and the baton-like object was named...

Meet “Nsidwaamjigan.”

Dr. Allison Webb, NOSM University alumna, named Program Director, Family Medicine Obstetrical Surgical Skills Residency Program

NOSM University is pleased to announce Dr. Allison Webb as the incoming Program Director, Family Medicine Enhanced Skills Obstetrical Surgical Skills Residency Program, effective August 1, 2023. A family physician in Sault Ste. Marie, Dr. Webb is passionate about providing maternity care in Northern Ontario and understands the unique training needs of NOSM University learners, as well as the challenging realities of practice within our northern communities. Dr. Webb is an alumna, having completed her MD, residency, and the enhanced obstetrical surgical skills residency program with NOSM University. She is an Assistant Professor and has...

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