Community Stories
Fifty Family Physicians across Northern Ontario Celebrated by Patients
Fifty physicians across Northern Ontario have been honored by the Ontario College of Family Physicians. Of those recognized, 36 are NOSM University faculty members. As part of the Life with a Doctor campaign by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, Ontarians were asked to share how their family doctor has gone above and beyond for them. The response was “overwhelming and heartfelt.” Family doctors are an essential part of the health-care system. Approximately 55% of NOSM University graduates have chosen to practise family medicine. NOSM University is proud of the dedicated family physicians who also serve as faculty...
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Two Northern Ontario communities share successes with recruitment
Sault Ste. Marie and Sioux Lookout are great places to work—and the word is getting out Dr. Mara Boyle didn’t originally think that her career would lead her to family medicine—or to Sioux Lookout. Plans changed when her third year of NOSM University’s MD program brought her to the small town, four hours north of her hometown of Thunder Bay. “I didn’t really want to be a family physician when I arrived in Sioux Lookout in my third year. I thought that I was going to become a specialist,” Dr. Boyle explains. “One of the aspects of working in Sioux Lookout is that you practise a broad scope of family medicine. I found it...
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Great things happen when good people come together
A reflection on community learning experiences in Marathon All of us can make contributions to communities, no matter where we are. Medical professionals and medical learners often have skills, interests, ideas, and energy to contribute to community life beyond what they offer in health care. This summer, Logan Brennan, fourth-year NOSM University medical student, spent two weeks on a rural generalist elective in Marathon. Coincidentally, one of the high school volleyball coaches was hosting a volleyball camp in preparation for the coming season. Logan—who has played at the varsity level and was a member of the Canadian National m...
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