Northern Ontario School of Medicine

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Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Established:	2005
Type:	Public
Dean:	Roger Strasser
Faculty:	350
Students:	224
Location:	Sudbury and Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Campus:	Small urban
Website:	www.nosm.ca

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is a medical school in the Canadian province of Ontario, created through a partnership between Laurentian University in Sudbury and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. Mandated both to educate doctors and to contribute to care in Northern Ontario's urban, rural and remote communities, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has campuses in both Sudbury and Thunder Bay.

The school is known for its small class size, its distributed model of education, heavy emphasis on enabling technologies, problem-based and self-directed learning, and early exposure to clinical skills.

Contents 1 History 2 Admissions 3 Hospitals 4 Northern Ontario Virtual Library 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] History

Before the creation of NOSM, Northern Ontario had for several years been designated as "underserviced", meaning that the region's ratio of medical professionals to the general population was not meeting the standards set by the Ministry of Health. As a result, a multifaceted plan was adopted by the province, including the creation of Northern and the adoption of special recruitment strategies. A study of medical services in Ontario, released in August of 2005, found that for the first time in many years, the region's level of medical services had improved over the previous year.

Construction on both campuses began in mid-2004, and the buildings were completed in August of 2005. NOSM accepted its charter class of 56 students in September of that same year and the school was officially opened by Premier Dalton McGuinty on September 13, 2005. The school received full accreditation from the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in February of 2009.

[edit] Admissions

Northern is one of only three medical schools in Canada outside of Queebec (along with McMaster University and the University of Ottawa) that do not require an MCAT score to be considered for admission. Furthermore, the only academic prerequisite is a university undergraduate degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0. To help further its social accountability mandate, Northern does take into account where candidates are from and whether they've studied or worked in Northern Ontario or other rural or remote places. Each year, approximately 2000 applicants compete for the 56 spots in each class. Applicants request their preferred campus at the time of their interview.

[edit] Hospitals

Fully affiliated teaching hospitals:

• Sudbury Regional Hospital - Sudbury
• Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre - Thunder Bay

Larger community teaching hospitals:

• South Muskoka Memorial Hospital - Bracebridge
• LaVerendrye Hospital - Fort Frances
• Huntsville District Memorial Hospital - Huntsville
• Lake of the Woods District Hospital - Kenora
• Temiskaming Hospital - New Liskeard
• North Bay General Hospital - North Bay
• West Parry Sound Health Centre - Parry Sound
• Sault Area Hospital - Sault Ste. Marie
• Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre - Sioux Lookout
• Timmins and District Hospital - Timmins

[edit] Northern Ontario Virtual Library

The medical school also operates the Northern Ontario Virtual Library or NOVL which was created in 2002. This service is directed to meeting the traditional and expanding information needs of practicing professionals through the entire Northern Ontario region. It sponsors in-person and technologically mediated instruction on the latest medical and health sciences databases and information technology, among other topics. The explicit aim is to further the practice of evidence-based medicine in the north, with special focus on the physicians, residents, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and other health care professionals in northern and/or rural communities, whether or not they are officially affiliated with Northern.

[edit] See also

• Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research

[edit] External links

• Northern Ontario School of Medicine
• Northern Ontario School of Medicine Student Society

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