$8 million in funding announced in January.<\/a><\/p>\nMP Terry Sheehan said he\u2019s pleased the government is making this investment. He confirmed this evening that\u00a0training will happen at Sault Area Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy creating these training opportunities, we are helping ensure more physicians will study, build their lives, and remain in Northern Ontario,\u201d Sheehan said in a news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will contribute to more resilient local economies and better access to health care for people and families throughout the region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding via email, Mayor Matthew Shoemaker said the expansion into the Sault is \u201ca welcome development that city council has been pushing for since the start of this term.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe data shows that medical students who train in a northern community are much more likely to build their careers there, and this investment strengthens that pipeline in a meaningful way,\u201d Shoemaker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy creating more opportunities for hands-on training in our community, we are taking a practical step toward improving long-term access to care while supporting the growth and resilience of our local health system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shoemaker said it\u2019s still unclear where NOSMU students will study in the Sault.<\/p>\n
In addition to Algoma Public Health, Group Health Centre and Sault Area Hospital, there was a fourth location where Northern Ontario School of Medicine University could go when it opens here in September 2027.<\/p>\n
NOSMU\u2019s president, Dr. Michael Green, said the university is grateful to the government for the funding.<\/p>\n
“By training more doctors in the north, we are strengthening regional economies and helping communities thrive through improved access to care,\u201d Green said in the release.<\/p>\n
Provided through Northern Ontario Development Program (NODP), this investment will allow NOSM University teaching sites, across the north, to retrofit learner spaces and purchase specialized equipment to support in-community training.<\/p>\n
This includes modernizing the facilities with enhancements such as video conferencing and information and communications technology capabilities, the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once fully established, the new training space will be well equipped to deliver the highest standard of education expected from modern medical schools.<\/p>\n
As a result of this expansion, NOSM University\u2019s Doctor of Medicine program is expected to increase from 425 to 852 learners within the next four years.<\/p>\n
Of the 87 training facilities, five will be located at larger hospitals in Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay, and Timmins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FedNor investment will help NOSMU train twice as many new doctors in the north Today, the Government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-576681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576681","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=576681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}