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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Miron as Program Director of the School’s Family Medicine Residency Program, effective June 30, 2018.

Miron—an alumnus of NOSM’s MD program—is a family physician and clinician-educator who practices in Timmins, Ontario where he has been the Family Medicine Residency Program Site Director for the past four years. He obtained his faculty appointment at NOSM five years ago and has been teaching medical students and residents in the classroom and clinical setting ever since. As Site Director, Miron undertook a comprehensive review and redesign of assessment tools and processes for residents in Family Medicine, which led to the creation of the Competency Coach Program. He continues to review and strengthen this important aspect of residency teaching and learning

“We are fortunate to have Paul join our team in this capacity,” says Dr. Tom Crichton, NOSM’s interim Associate Dean of Postgraduate Education. “He has worked tirelessly for Postgraduate Education and has also ingrained himself within NOSM’s Undergraduate Medical Education Program in various roles. We are incredibly proud of Paul, as he is our first NOSM MD graduate to hold this position.”

“We would also like to thank Dr. Stacy Desilets for her dedicated service as Program Director for the past three years,” says Crichton. “Stacy completed her residency through the Ottawa Northern Stream residency program based in Northeastern Ontario, just before NOSM’s inception. The Family Medicine program at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has benefited greatly from Stacy’s leadership as she implemented annual competency coach training sessions, developed new maternity and obstetric simulation workshops, built the program evaluation plan and led a revision of the academic and research curriculum.”

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Sustainable Physician Workforce Building

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In keeping with NOSM’s mission to improve the supply of physicians in Northern Ontario, the School partnered with the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), the North East LHIN and HealthForceOntario (HFO) Marketing and Recruitment Agency to host Summit North: Building a Flourishing Physician Workforce. 

The Summit was held on January 24, 2018 in Thunder Bay and had over 130 people who took part including representatives from Indigenous communities, Francophone communities, hospitals/health services, family health teams, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ontario Medical Association and local government. Drawing on experience in other jurisdictions and on intensive group discussions, Summit North developed short and long-term solutions to build a sustainable physician workforce. Subsequently, the Northern Physician Resource Task Force has developed an Action Plan based on Summit North’s solutions.

Summit North’s title drew on the work of Dr. Denis Lennox who retired recently from Queensland Health in Australia. Over the past few weeks (May 21 – June 7), Dr. Lennox visited seven communities in Northern Ontario as the first stage in a projected Knowledge Transfer through which Northern Ontario will develop our own Service and Workforce Design team(s), similar to Queensland. Service and Workforce Design teams assist struggling communities in redesigning their service models to address population health needs and to recruit physicians, enhanced by active community participation. The model also includes a rural generalist pathway which, if implemented in Ontario, would feature a NOSM (PGY3) enhanced skills in rural generalism with a goal of creating a stable physician “pipeline”. NOSM is excited to be sponsoring this initiative and working with the Task Force to ensure high quality, reliable healthcare in remote rural Northern Ontario communities.

 

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NOSM MD Alumnus takes on Leadership Role

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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Miron as Program Director of the School’s Family Medicine Residency Program, effective June 30, 2018. Miron—an alumnus of NOSM’s MD program—is a family physician and clinician-educator who practices in Timmins, Ontario where he has been the Family Medicine Residency Program Site Director for the past four years. He obtained his faculty appointment at NOSM five years ago and has been teaching medical students and residents in the classroom and clinical setting ever since.

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