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NOSM-European Health Professional Recruitment and Retention Project Receives Funding
Recruiting and retaining health-care professionals for rural and remote communities is an ongoing challenge in many parts of the world. Today, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) announced that, together with partners from four European countries (Sweden, UK [Scotland], Iceland, and Norway), it would participate in a project to advance recruitment and retention of health and other public sector workers in the Northern Periphery and Arctic region. The project, titled Recruit and Retain 2: Making it Work, has received €2 million from the European Union. Within Canada, the project activities will focus on recruitment and r...
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NOSM Hosts International Conference to Discuss Putting ‘Communities in the Driver’s Seat’ to Promote Rural and Remote Health
From Monday, June 20 to Saturday, June 25, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) will host an international conference in Sault Ste. Marie, titled the International conference on Community Engaged Medical Education and Research in the North (ICEMEN) 2016 along with three partner events: Conference on the Move, the Indigenous Research Gathering, and the Northern Health Research Conference (NHRC). More than 300 guests from around the world will meet in Sault Ste. Marie for ICEMEN 2016, which is the fifth in a biennial series of conferences co-hosted by Flinders University School of Medicine and the Training for Health Equi...
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NOSM to Celebrate 10th Anniversary in Sault Ste. Marie
The 2015-2016 academic year marks 10 years since the Northern Ontario Medical School (NOSM) welcomed its inaugural class of medical students. Over the last decade, the School has worked with communities across the region to build a healthier Northern Ontario. From June 20-25, 2016, NOSM will be hosting the International conference on Community Engaged Medical Education in the North (ICEMEN), which will attract over 300 leading researchers from Canada and around the world to Northern Ontario. Held in Sault Ste. Marie, the city is one of over 90 communities across the region to host NOSM learners. It is very significant that the S...
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NOSM Reports on Your Medical School at the 10-Year Mark
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is a medical school made in the North, for the North. As the School celebrates its 10th anniversary, we want to let you know what we’ve been doing for the last decade, and how we’ve been working with our many partners to build a healthier Northern Ontario. To this end, NOSM is excited to announce the release of a fully bilingual document—“A Report to Northern Ontario”—which provides information about how your medical school is working to improve the health of people and communities in the North. In this report (attached), you will find: Facts and figures about new gradua...
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NOSM Wins Gold Award from the Canadian Public Relations Society
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Gold Award of Excellence by the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS). The award recognizes the School’s 10thanniversary “Be Active with NOSM” initiative, which took place on September 23, 2015. Celebrated annually, the CPRS Awards of Excellence showcase the best public relations and communications management projects and campaigns. CPRS National received a record-high number of submissions in 16 communications categories. The awards were announced last night at An Evening of Excellence at the World Public Relations Forum in T...
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NOSM Holds Face-to-Face Board Meeting in Hearst
Members Tour Hôpital Notre-Dame Hospital and Nord-Aski Family Health Facility, Participate in Interactive Learning Sessions, and Interact with Community Members The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) held its annual Board of Directors face-to-face meeting in Hearst, Ontario on May 12 and May 13, 2016. On the first morning together, NOSM Board members enjoyed a tour of Hearst’s Hôpital Notre-Dame Hospital and Nord-Aski Family Health Facility organized by France Dallaire, Hospital CEO, Dr. Richard Claveau, Chief of Staff and Site Liaison Clinician for NOSM, and Maryléne Comeau, Physician Recruiter and Site Administrative...
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Extended Deadline to apply to NOSM’s Annual Health Sciences Summer Camp
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) maintains a commitment to providing information to rural, remote, Indigenous, and Francophone youth about health careers. This year NOSM will host its annual Health Sciences Summer Camp from July 4-8, 2016 at Laurentian University in Sudbury and from July 11-15, 2016 at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. These week-long programs provide students with an opportunity to explore health-care careers, obtain hands-on experience, and find a mentor. Camp activities include: casting and x-rays; CSI; physiology and anatomy; Indigenous culture, health and tradition; Francophone culture, healt...
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NOSM Adopts “Indigenous Peoples” Terminology
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and the School’s Indigenous Reference Group (formerly known as Aboriginal Reference Group) together announce NOSM’s adoption of the terminology “Indigenous Peoples” in place of “Aboriginal Peoples.” This change in terminology, recommended by NOSM’s Indigenous Reference Group (IRG) was motivated by the Canadian Government’s recognition of the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, included within the “Calls to Action” made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The term “Indigenous,” used by the United Nations, is meant ...
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