2008, Number 4
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MEDICC Review 2008; 10 (4)
Developing partnerships ford distributed community-engaged medical education in northern Ontario, Canada
Lanphear JH, Strasser R
Language: English
References: 12
Page: 15-19
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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM)
was established as a not-for-profit medical education
corporation in November 2002 with a social accountability
mandate to provide “undergraduate and
post graduate medical education programs that are
innovative and responsive to the individual needs
of students and to the healthcare needs of the people
in Northern Ontario.” NOSM is not only the
first new medical school in Canada in 30 years; it
is also the first medical school established in, for
and about the Northern Ontario region; and the first
Canadian dual university medical school. In practice,
these “firsts” constitute community-engaged
medical education programs distributed in 70 communities
across Northern Ontario, made possible
by partnerships with universities, advisory groups,
community organizations, hospitals and clinics. It
is through these partnerships that NOSM works to
fully achieve its social accountability mandate with
a diverse, multilingual population, dispersed over a
wide geographic area.
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