NOSM ALUMNUS NEW ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, ELECTIVES
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce Dr. John Coccimiglio has accepted the position of Academic Director, Electives, effective September 1, 2020. Dr. Coccimiglio completed both his MD and family medicine residency at NOSM. Devoted to living and working in the region, Dr. Coccimiglio now practices as a family physician in acute and long-term care in Thunder Bay. Dr. Coccimiglio has been recognized throughout the years for his academic excellence, clinical teaching, research, and volunteer work. He attributes his achievements and work ethic to the academic and clinical experiences he obtained while a stu...
> Read MoreThe end of Summer: Teaming up for fall
Hello. Bonjour. Aaniin. Boozhoo. As summer comes to an end and the leaves begin to change, we’re gearing up for yet another academic year. Of course many of us have been working throughout the summer and in fact our post graduate programs have been well into their academic year. I hope everyone was still able to revel in the smells of sunscreen, bonfires, the lake and camp, fresh fish, and forest air. I have to say that I have never seen such bright sunsets, heard such bounding thunder, nor experienced such brilliant rainbows as I did in Northern Ontario. To me, the mixed weather is a perfect metaphor for my first two months and ...
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Hello. Bonjour. Aaniin. Boozhoo. These two weeks have taken me to Thunder Bay several times and meetings around Ontario, with more plans to travel to where NOSM must be represented; including communities further north, and at the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine, and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and the Colleges. It is critical that NOSM is seen in all these places, because NOSM is truly unique. No other voice can adequately represent the Northern perspective on health-care education. If not, we risk being unheard or left out of competing province-wide decisions and national strategies in resource allo...
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