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NOSM Receives Top International Awards for Community Partnerships
Winner of Three 2010 Global Best Awards, including “Overall Global Winner” The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is thrilled to be the recipient of three 2010 Global Best Awards granted by the International Partnership Network (IPN). Global Best Awards celebrate outstanding and effective business, education, and community organization partnerships that have a significant impact on the communities in which they operate. NOSM received the following top international honours for its development of community partnerships: - Global Best Award for the Americas: Building Learning Communities - Global Best Award: The Americ...
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NOSM Professor Hosts Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Research Network Meeting
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was recently pleased to support NOSM researcher, Dr. Kristen Jacklin, and Dr. Wayne Warry of McMaster University, in their efforts to draw attention to dementia in Aboriginal communities. On April 15 and 16, 2010, researchers, administrators, and Aboriginal community members from across the country attended the Aboriginal ADRD Research Network Meeting at NOSM’s East Campus in Sudbury where presentations, discussions, and community perspectives focused on the complexity of dementia among Aboriginal groups. The event was organized in response to a 2007 provincial forum on ADRD, which r...
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NOSM Receives Award from Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
Award Recognizes M.D. Graduates’ Commitment to Rural Health Care The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to be the recipient of the 2010 Rural Medical Education Award granted by the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC). Each year, the SRPC confers the Rural Medical Education Award to an undergraduate medical education program which has excelled in graduating physicians heading toward a career in rural medicine. This year’s selection process involved choosing the medical school program that matched the most graduates to rural family medicine residency programs in the 2009 Canadian Resident Matching Se...
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