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You’re Invited: 2023 NOSM University Achievement Celebration

This year, we launch our inaugural NOSM University Achievement Celebration, an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the many accomplishments of our students, faculty and alumni. Hosted at our Northern Constellations conference on Friday, May 5, 2023 in Thunder Bay, we will be recognizing everyone who has achieved something remarkable this year, and handing out awards in select categories from Learner Affairs, Faculty Affairs and Alumni Relations. We do incredible things at—and after—NOSM University. Let’s celebrate our successes! Purchase your tickets for dinner and the celebration of the year here!...

Dr. Caitlyn Vlasschaert recently awarded the Emerging-Generation Award

Dr. Caitlyn Vlasschaert, NOSM University alumna Class of 2019, was recently awarded the Emerging-Generation Award by the American Society of Clinician Investigators (ASCI). The Emerging Generation Awards recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research and provide a two-year longitudinal experience for twenty early-career awardees. Dr. Vlasschaert is the only Canadian recipient of this very competitive award. Dr. Vlasschaert is a trainee in the Clinician-Investigator Program with the ASCI and is concurrently undertaking an internal medicine residency and a PhD in Translat...

February is Black History Month

NOSM University remembers and salutes the remarkable Dr. Saint-Firmin Monestime, Haitian-born, Francophone physician who settled in Mattawa, Ontario in 1951 and made it a better place to live. Dr. Monestime studied medicine at the School of Medicine of the State University of Haiti, and was a specialist in rural medicine, writing three books on the subject. Before his journey to Canada, he worked as a State doctor in Haiti, and it was during that time that he met with a terrible and bloody moment in Caribbean history. The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic, also called the Parsley Massacre, left tens of thousands of Haitia...