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Out of the Classroom and Into the Kitchen

A new initiative at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is taking medical students from the classroom to the kitchen. During the 2017-18 academic year, optional Culinary Medicine Labs were offered to undergraduate medical students with an interest in learning more about nutrition. “Research shows that the greatest predictor of patient nutrition counselling by physicians is the physician’s own perceptions of nutrition and eating habits,” says Lee Rysdale, Registered Dietitian (RD), Associate Professor in the Clinical Sciences Division and Practice Education Research and Evaluation Lead in the Health Sciences and Interprofessi...

A decade of making a difference: City of Lakes Family Health Team celebrates 10th anniversary

In 2008, the new City of Lakes Family Health Team (CoLFHT) clinic in Val Caron had its first patient walk through the doors. Ten years later, that patient is one of 20,000 who are served by the CoLFHT in one of four clinics in Sudbury, Val Caron, Walden and Chelmsford. “Many of the patients we’ve rostered over the past ten years didn’t have a family physician, so we’ve been able to help close the gaps in access to primary care in the Greater Sudbury community,” says David Courtemanche, the Executive Director of the CoLFHT. As the clinic celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Courtemanche and the team at CoLFHT are re...

New residency stream trains doctors in Eabametoong First Nation

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine , Matawa First Nations Management and Eabametoong First Nation signed an agreement in 2016 to create a new Remote First Nations Family Medicine Residency stream. The new stream allows medical school graduates to complete their Family Medicine residency in a remote First Nation community in Northern Ontario. It also includes a return of service commitment to serve in Eabametoong or another Matawa community for four years following the completion of the residency. The residency stream began as a pilot in December 2016 with the selection of the first resident, Dr. Deepak Murthy who began in July 20...