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Registration for NOSM’s Virtual CampMed Now Open

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is excited to announce that CampMed will be offered entirely online from July 12 to July 23, 2021, marking the second year of virtual CampMed. NOSM’s 16th annual summer camp is designed for high-school students interested in a career in health care. CampMed focuses on four core learning areas: interprofessionalism, leadership, culture, and clinical skills. The experience provides Northern youth with an opportunity to explore a variety of health-care careers and be mentored by post-secondary students. This year’s virtual CampMed will be led by a team of 27 university student volunte...

Launchfire and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Receive International Communicator Award

Launchfire, a leader in game-based marketing programs, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) win a 2021 Communicator Award in the category of Individual-Contests & Promotions for their online advertising and marketing work in creating The NOSM Trivia Challenge. With more than 6,000 entries received from across the United States and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals. The NOSM Trivia Challenge provided participants the opportunity to answer educational trivia questions on health equity in Northern...

10th Annual Northern Constellations focuses on physician wellness and recognizes outstanding NOSM faculty

Faculty at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) came together to share, network and celebrate its pan-Northern community at Northern Constellations. This was the School’s 10thannual Northern Constellations faculty development conference held Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1, 2021. With close to 1,800 faculty distributed across 800,000 km2 in more than 90 communities, Northern Constellations was developed in 2012 as a way to unite the School’s dispersed faculty who are critical to the delivery of medical education at NOSM. This year’s agenda explored the topic of physician burnout and the need for wider organization...