Media Releases
NOSM’s MD Program Receives Full Accreditation
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the educational program leading to the MD degree has received full accreditation for the maximum allotted time of eight years. This outcome, made official to NOSM last week, arrives after a rigorous review process that included site visits by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) to NOSM's two campuses at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay) and Laurentian University (Sudbury), and one of NOSM's teaching sites (Kapuskasing) in March. The accreditation process reviews all levels of a m...
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Research Awards Totaling $54,000 Presented to NOSM Medical Students
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) has awarded eight medical students with NOSM Dean's Summer Medical Student Research Awards, valued at $6,000 each. This is the seventh year that NOSM has awarded Summer Medical Student Awards to qualifying MD students. "At the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, we encourage our medical students to undertake as many learning opportunities as possible, and one of these opportunities is the ability to undertake research projects that are directly relevant to the health issues impacting people across Northern Ontario," explained Dr. David Marsh, NOSM's Associate Dean, Community Engagement. ...
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Sudbury Release: Physician Assistant Program Celebrates Accreditation Status with Clinical Partner Sites Across Northern Ontario
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine's (NOSM) is pleased to announce the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), which accredits Physician Assistant (PA) programs in Canada, has recently undertaken the inaugural accreditation review of the PA program and has accorded accreditation status as of December 2011. The Bachelor of Science Physician Assistant (BScPA) degree is a full-time professional, second-entry undergraduate degree program conferred by the University of Toronto (U of T), and delivered by The Consortium of PA Education. The Consortium is a collaboration between U of T's Department of Family and Community Medicine, NOSM, and...
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