The Northern Ontario School of Medicine:

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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine

• Responding to the Needs of People Communities
  in Northern Ontario

Dr Roger Strasser Founding Dean and
Professor Northern Ontario School of Medicine
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Northern Ontario School of Medicine

• Faculty of Medicine of Lakehead U
• Faculty of Medicine of Laurentian U
• Social Accountability mandate
• Commitment to innovation

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• Sioux Lookout

• In, by and for Northern Ontario

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Education and Training

• high schools program
• local premed programs
• undergraduate program
• postgraduate programs
• professional development
• graduate studies

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Six Key Academic Principles

• Interprofessional
• Integration
• Community Oriented
• Distributed
• community engaged learning
• Generalism
• Diversity

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NOSM MD Program

• Four years
• Clinically driven
• Integrated curriculum
• Distributed learning
• Consultative process in
• developing curriculum

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Organization / Deliveryof NOSM Curriculum
Phase 1
Phase 3
Residency
Phase 2
Year 1 101 102 103 104 105 106
Year 2 107 108 109 110 111
Year 3 Comprehensive Community Clerkship
Year 4 Electives Selectives Licensure
Examination
Years 5, 6 and Beyond Individual Specialty Choice
Case Based Modules
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Thunder Bay
Sudbury
All Placement Sites
Toronto
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Residency Programs

• Family Medicine
• - 30 places per year
• General Specialties
• - 26 places per year
• Collaboration
• - McMaster U
• - U of Ottawa

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Northern Ontario Health Professional Development

• almost 600 events
• many online sessions
• CME/CPD
• interprofessional
• faculty development

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Health Professional Education

• rehabilitation sciences
• interprofessional education
• communities of practice
• dietetic internship program
• physician assistants (future)
• NOVL (digital library service)

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Community Engagement

• individuals and organizations
• partnerships and collaborations
• Local NOSM Groups
• education and training (DCEL)
• research
• community development

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Benefits of NOSM to the Health System

• More generalist physicians
• Enhanced healthcare access
• Responsiveness to Aboriginal,
• Francophone, rural, remote
• Interprofessional cooperation
• Health research

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