Media Releases
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...
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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...
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NOSM Receives its Tenth Rural Medical Education Award
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was honoured by the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC) with the Rural Medical Education Award on April 13, 2021. This was the tenth time that NOSM has been recognized with this award. Each year, the Rural Medical Education Award is presented to a Canadian medical school that encourages students to pursue further training in rural medicine. It is awarded to the MD program that has matched the most graduates to rural family medicine programs as reported by the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) process. According to CaRMS data for 2020, 78% of NOSM’s graduating MD cl...
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