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Room to Breathe

Promoting Medical Student Wellness at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Two new wellness rooms at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine are offering students and learners a space to help them cope with the day-to-day stresses of academics as well as home and family life. “When you go into medicine, there are rewards, but there are also occupational hazards,” says Cathy Schroeder, Senior Learner Affairs Officer at NOSM. “Students may have dealt with or seen things that have affected them, or they could be feeling burned out from a combination of academics, clinical and volunteer work.” This includes burnout, depression...

Out of the Classroom and Into the Kitchen

A new initiative at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is taking medical students from the classroom to the kitchen. During the 2017-18 academic year, optional Culinary Medicine Labs were offered to undergraduate medical students with an interest in learning more about nutrition. “Research shows that the greatest predictor of patient nutrition counselling by physicians is the physician’s own perceptions of nutrition and eating habits,” says Lee Rysdale, Registered Dietitian (RD), Associate Professor in the Clinical Sciences Division and Practice Education Research and Evaluation Lead in the Health Sciences and Interprofessi...

A decade of making a difference: City of Lakes Family Health Team celebrates 10th anniversary

In 2008, the new City of Lakes Family Health Team (CoLFHT) clinic in Val Caron had its first patient walk through the doors. Ten years later, that patient is one of 20,000 who are served by the CoLFHT in one of four clinics in Sudbury, Val Caron, Walden and Chelmsford. “Many of the patients we’ve rostered over the past ten years didn’t have a family physician, so we’ve been able to help close the gaps in access to primary care in the Greater Sudbury community,” says David Courtemanche, the Executive Director of the CoLFHT. As the clinic celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Courtemanche and the team at CoLFHT are re...