Northern Ontario's NOSM University is succeeding in its mission to have more family doctors in this part of Ontario, the university said recently.
Highlighting residency data on its students, NOSM U said its MD students have recently completed their residency choices for 2024 through the Canadian Resident Matching Service.
NOSM said 38 of the 69 eligible MD students were matched to family medicine residencies — at 55 per cent, this is the highest proportional residency rate in Canada, said NOSM.
NOSM U, formerly the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, teaches medical students at campuses in Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The medical school also said 36 of the graduating MDs (52 per cent) will be doing their medical residency training at NOSM University. This is important, said NOSM, because about 90 per cent of learners who do both an MD degree and a residency in the North, stay in the North.
Dr. Sarita Verma, NOSM's president, vice-chancellor, dean and CEO, said this demonstrates that NOSM’s goal of educating doctors in the North to stay in the North is bearing fruit..
“We are ecstatic with the results,” said Verma. “The numbers speak volumes, not only about what drives our MD students, but where they want to be.”
NOSM said this exceptional family medicine match rate is part of a continued success story at NOSM University, with more than half of MD students on average choosing the discipline.
“NOSM University is doing its part to connect Northern Ontarians to high-quality health care,” said Verma. “We are so proud of all of our graduates, and thank everyone who has helped them along the way.”
Other members of the class have matched at other schools across the country in other residency programs, including internal medicine, anesthesiology, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, pathology, emergency medicine, radiology, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, ophthalmology, urology, physical medicine and rehabilitation.
