Media Releases
NOSM’s Dietetic Internship Program Receives National Accreditation
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the School's Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP) has received full accreditation status from the Dietitians of Canada (DC) until 2022. Thanks to its reputation for high quality of education, NODIP was recently selected by the Dietitians of Canada to be the first post-degree internship of all Canadian dietetic education programs to be assessed using the new Partnership for Dietetic Education and Practice (PDEP) Accreditation Standards. A three-person surveyor team from Dietitians of Canada visited NOSM on May 3-4, 2015. Dietitians of Canada is the na...
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NOSM Faculty Member Receives Funding for First Nations Diabetes Research
A new research project has received funding from the Ontario Strategy for Patient-Orientated Research (SPOR) Support Unit to take a closer look at diabetes within Ontario's First Nations peoples, and help develop new programs and policies for those living with the disease. Dr. Kristen Jacklin, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Human Sciences Division at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) at Laurentian University is one of three principal investigators leading the research. The team's project Reducing the burden of diabetes on First Nations people in Ontario: Using population-level data to inform policy ...
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NOSM Receives International Award for Excellence in Communications
On Monday, June 15, 2015, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was honoured to receive an international award for excellence in communications. The prestigious Gold Quill Award of Excellence was received from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) as part of IABC's annual World Conference in San Francisco. NOSM's Communications Unit received the Gold Quill Award of Merit for the School's communication campaign Give the Gift of Appreciation: NOSM's Staff Awards of Excellence. This honour was awarded in the category for Internal Special Events in the Communications Skills division, and recognized the c...
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