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NOSM University’s CampMed Marks 20 Years of Encouraging Youth to Dream Big
For 20 years, NOSM University’s CampMed has inspired high-school students to choose careers in health care. Designed for youth from Northern, rural, and remote parts of Ontario, the annual summer camp gives grades 10 and 11 students a hands-on preview of careers in a variety of health-care fields and medical specialties. This year, CampMed takes place July 6-10 in Sudbury and July 13-17 in Thunder Bay. “My time at CampMed reinforced my passion for medicine and set me up for a lifelong career in health care,” says Dr. Alyssa Labelle, who is from Sudbury. A previous camper and volunteer at CampMed, Dr. Labelle went on to graduat...
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Full Circle
As summer arrives across Northern Ontario, I find myself looking forward to something many of us look forward to this time of year: a slightly different pace, a little more time outdoors, and an opportunity to reconnect with the people and places that matter most. This photo captures one of those moments for me. The image on the right was taken in 1996 at the water taxi dock in Moose Factory during my first year in practice there. The photo on the left was taken 30 years later, in the same place. A lot has changed over those three decades. Medicine has changed. Northern Ontario has changed. And, as the photos clearly show, I hav...
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Expanding access to health care in the North
$123K invested in Physician Assistant training in Northern Ontario The Consortium of Physician Assistant Education—a collaboration between the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto (U of T) and NOSM University—has received $123,000 from the Ontario Ministry of Health to establish a dedicated Northern Stream for Physician Assistant (PA) training in Northern Ontario. Having welcomed its first class in 2010, the Bachelor of Science Physician Assistant (BScPA) program is a full-time undergraduate degree program at the University of Toronto. The program, delivered through this unique partnership, combines acad...
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