The medical school has added four post-graduate streams to its slate of programming.<\/p>\n
THUNDER BAY \u2014 The medical school that serves northern Ontario\u00a0says the addition of four new residencies will improve access to health care across the region.<\/p>\n
NOSM University has added post-graduate specializations in medical oncology, a new emergency medicine program, palliative care, and obstetrics and gynecology. In a media release, the medical school said the expanded programming is to improve access to health care throughout the north.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a vital step toward improving access to care in northern Ontario by training more physicians where they are needed most,\u201d Michael Green, NOSM University\u2019s president, vice-chancellor, dean and CEO was quoted as saying in the university\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
Green\u2019s quote also said the new programs were \u201cenabled\u201d by the province expanding medical education placements.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for NOSM told Newswatch in an email that the medical school\u2019s residencies \u201care designed to serve the whole of northern Ontario.\u201d They will be centred in various locations, however, with the emergency medicine and obstetrics and gynecology programs primarily based in and focused on Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n
The palliative care program\u2019s focus is spread right across the north, the university said, while the medical oncology program is primarily based in Sudbury.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if a program is primarily based in one city, residents benefit from the knowledge and support of physicians working in that specialty right across the north,\u201d the university said in its email to Newswatch.<\/p>\n
The residencies will help address the \u201curgent\u201d physician shortage across northern Ontario, the school\u2019s media release said, adding that they will help increase the number of medical students from 64 to 108 and incoming residents from 60 to 123 by 2028.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese new residency programs represent a major step forward in NOSM University\u2019s expansion plan and in transforming access to health care in northern Ontario,\u201d Rob Anderson, the school\u2019s associate dean of postgraduate medical education was quoted as saying in the university\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are grateful to the hospitals, clinics, health-care professionals and community partners across northern Ontario whose support ensures residents receive exceptional training while helping to build a stronger local health system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The medical school has added four post-graduate streams to its slate of programming. THUNDER BAY \u2014 The medical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,88416],"class_list":{"0":"post-172421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-nosm-universitynosm-university-new-residenciesnosm-university-specialized-residencies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}