Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Established 2005
Type Public
Dean Roger Strasser
Academic staff 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.

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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 NOSM 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.

Admissions

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine's East Campus in Sudbury, Ontario

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is one of only three medical schools in Canada outside of Quebec (along with University of Ottawa and University of Calgary) that does 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, NOSM 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 64 spots in each class. Applicants request their preferred campus at the time of their interview.

Hospitals

Fully affiliated teaching hospitals:

Larger community teaching hospitals:

NOSM's Health Sciences Library

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine also operates the Health Sciences Library (HSL), formerly known as the Northern Ontario Virtual Library (NOVL) to northern health-care professionals, and the Health Information Resource Centre (HIRC) to faculty, students and residents. The HSL aims to meet the traditional and expanding information needs of NOSM's learners and faculty, as well as registered health professionals throughout the region of Northern Ontario. It sponsors in-person and technologically-mediated instruction on the latest health sciences resources 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.

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Coordinates: 46°27′50″N 80°57′56″W / 46.46388°N 80.96546°W / 46.46388; -80.96546


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