NOSM, Matawa, and Eabametoong First Nation Create Unique Family Medicine Residency Opportunity for Medical School Graduates Medical school graduates may now be able to undertake postgraduate family medicine training connected to a remote First Nation community in Northern Ontario. With the strong [Read more]
First-year medical students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) spend four weeks in an Indigenous community during one of their Integrated Clinical Experience (ICE) modules. Each of the communities that host students has a Local Community Coordinator (LCC) to help orient the students [Read more]
Ontario and OMA Reach Tentative Agreement The province and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) have reached a tentative four-year agreement that would, if ratified, strengthen the quality, access and timeliness of health care while providing a predictable physician services budget. The tentative [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – The Marathon Family Health Team is pleased to announce the recruitment of Dr. Jessica Robinson to Marathon! Dr. Robinson was born and raised in Timmins, Ontario. She obtained her medical degree from University of Western Ontario and trained in general surgery from the [Read more]
Integration. Transformation. Better sharing of information, knowledge and resources is at the heart of an integrated health care system – and is the core of the North West LHIN’s Physician Office Integration Program, or POI. POI allows for the almost immediate transmission of patient [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Friday, October 12, 2012, several delegates from the Rendez-Vous 2012 world conference visited Marathon, one of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) partner communities that hosts medical learners undertaking Northern rural placements. During the community [Read more]
A Celebration of Canada’s Medical Radiation Technologists MANITOUWADGE, ON — Manitouwadge General Hospital celebrates Medical Radiation Technologists (MRTs) Week, November 4-10, 2012. These nationally certified Technologists are committed to providing empathetic “high-touch” care to [Read more]
