Media Releases
Third Consecutive Year NOSM Receives Honour
On Friday evening, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was presented with its third Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC) Rural Medical Education award. This year's award was given to the Canadian medical school program that has matched the most graduates to rural family medicine programs in the 2011 Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) process. NOSM Dean, Dr. Roger Strasser accepted the award on behalf of the School at a dinner held by the SRPC in Whistler, British Columbia. In 2011, 44% of NOSM's graduating MD class matched to a rural family medicine residency program. Many Northern-trained physicians who hav...
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NOSM Learners to Engage with Thunder Bay Secondary Schools to Promote Health Care Related Careers
This spring, medical students from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) will begin an outreach program through the Ontario Medical Student Association (OMSA), the student section of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). The program, called Altitude: Healthcare Mentoring, is aimed at encouraging students in their final year of secondary school to seriously consider a career in the field of health care. "This program gives us the opportunity to showcase to youth in our community that we were once in their shoes, and that their dream to become medical professionals is obtainable," explained Hilary Bohler, one member of the fiv...
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NOSM Faculty Members Receive Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Innovation Award
A cancer prevention research project involving Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) faculty members in partnership with 10 First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario has garnered attention from the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. The team's project, titled "Engaging First Nations Women in Cervical Cancer Screening: Assessing Factors Related to Screening and Uptake of Self-Sampling," has resulted in the team being chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario Innovation Award. "Our team has been able to develop a respectful cancer prevention research study with our collaborating First Nations partner...
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