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Defining their own role
Rehabilitation Sciences creates new placement opportunity. The Rehabilitation Sciences Unit at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has created a new placement opportunity for occupational therapy and physiotherapy students from the Northern Studies Stream at the Anishnawbe-Mushkiki Aboriginal Health Access Centre (AMAHAC) in Thunder Bay. The new initiative is a collaboration between AMAHAC, NOSM, the Lakehead University Sports Medicine Clinic and the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University. Occupational therapy and physiotherapy students from McMaster will be placed at AMAHAC in Thunder Bay in a role-emerging f...
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NOSM Congratulates Dr. Mitchell
NOSM congratulates Dr. Doris Mitchell on the Grand Opening of The Sacred Tree Wellness Centre located on the reserve of Chapleau Cree First Nation. Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine MD (Class of 2010) and residency training. She grew up in Chapleau and has been providing care there since July 2012. Prior to that, Chapleau did not have a permanent doctor for almost seven years. The Sacred Tree Wellness Centre provides primary health care and health promotion services for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in collaboration with Chapleau Health Services, Brunswick House First Nation Health Centre,...
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Congratulations NOSM Class of 2018!
On Tuesday, May 29 at Laurentian University, and on Friday, June 1 at Lakehead University, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine class of 2018 graduated with a joint MD degree of Lakehead and Laurentian. The convocation ceremonies included the Hooding of graduates and recitation of the Physician’s Oath by the new graduates. They were each followed by a special NOSM Graduation Ceremony at which: a class representative (Luke Wu at Laurentian and Athena Young at Lakehead) provided insightful and entertaining retrospectives of four years at medical school; an alumni representative (Aidan Wharton in Sudbury and Ella Goodman in Th...
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