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It takes a lot of encouragement to apply to medical school
For Dr. Eli Nix, the road to medical school wasn’t a straight line. It was a winding, uphill path that required encouragement, despite the fact that he was a promising, highly educated candidate. “It took a lot of people to convince me that medical school was an option for me and it can take a while to decide whether or not it is something worth trying,” says Dr. Nix, NOSM Alumnus (MD Class of 2019). He is currently a second-year psychiatry resident working in an out-patient mental health clinic for patients from Thunder Bay and across the region. Dr. Nix, originally from Thunder Bay, says he is happy to be able to get his ...
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Apply now to NOSM’s Master of Medical Studies program
Applications open January 18, 2021 for NOSM’s Master of Medical Studies program. Throughout the course of your studies in the MMS program, you will gain foundational research skills in order to answer pressing health care questions. Program coursework focuses on developing the necessary skills to acquire grant funding, obtain ethics approval, and develop a research project and appropriate methodology. The goal of the program is for learners to focus on improving the health of all people in Northern, rural, and remote communities. Learn about the application deadline and requirements. ...
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NOSM blazes trail for first Canadian medical school virtual accreditation
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is the first medical school in Canada to experience a new virtual accreditation of its MD program. The traditional accreditation, originally scheduled for spring, was postponed to October 2020 due to the pandemic. Dr. Brian Ross, NOSM’s Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, says this is a new, peer review model of accreditation, with more question-focused meetings planned. “We are piloting a new virtual accreditation process, which could potentially be the new normal moving forward,” says Dr. Ross. “NOSM is a leader in distributed learning, so working virtually comes na...
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