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Teaching teachers
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine was founded on the idea that if health professionals are educated in the North, they will stay in the North. In order to educate learners in the North, there is a need for clinical teachers in communities across the region. The Rehabilitation Studies Program at NOSM has developed Preceptor 101 sessions to help increase the number of clinical teachers in the North. The sessions are designed for health professionals including audiologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech language pathologists who are interested in becoming preceptors, or have experience but want to improve ...
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NOSM medical student co-authors paper in Canadian Journal of Cardiology
A study titled Comparison of Readmission and Death Among Patients With Cardiac Disease in Northern vs Southern Ontario was published today in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. The research recommends providing access to timely transitional care by clinicians who have the knowledge and expertise to treat patients recently discharged from hospital as one of several strategies necessary to reduce hospital readmission rates. The study shows that patients hospitalized with heart attacks, heart failure, atrial fibrillation or stroke in Northern Ontario were more likely to be readmitted to the hospital and repeatedly hospitalized after dis...
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Returning home to Kirkland Lake
The effect of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine on access to quality health care goes beyond doctors. Since its creation in 2007, 135 registered dietitians have graduated from NOSM’s Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP). Two of those graduates, Kelsey MacKinnon and Jasmine Connelly, are now practising in the Kirkland Lake area. MacKinnon, a registered dietitian with the Timiskaming Diabetes Program North at Kirkland & District Hospital, grew up in Cambridge. Her family is from Kirkland Lake, and her parents returned to the community while she was in university. “I had never lived in Northern Ontario fu...
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