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Health Sciences North and its affiliate, the Health Sciences North Research Institute, have been ranked among Canada’s top 40 research hospitals for a seventh consecutive year by Re$earch Infosource.
“HSN, HSNRI and its researchers have secured more than $9 million, including external grants and contract funding, for studies to support our key goal of enhancing HSN’s academic and research impact,” Dr. Greg Ross, VP academic and research impact, said in a release. “With 43 active clinical research projects and eight new clinical trials started within the past year, our researchers are working directly toward improving health outcomes for our patients.”
NOSM announced the launch of its Indigenous Health Practitioner Pathway program Monday. (File photo)
THUNDER BAY – The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) hopes to increase the number of Indigenous health care professionals in the region with a new Indigenous Health Practitioner Pathway program.
The school will collaborate with Science North to offer educational programming and mentorship opportunities at 10 rural and remote high schools and five urban high schools across northern Ontario.
Boosting the number of Indigenous people in the profession is key to ensuring culturally appropriate care, the school said as it announced the program Monday.
“What resonates with me is the hope of providing future generations in First Nation communities with Indigenous family physicians that they will grow up with, who will care for them for years to come,” said NOSM alumnus Dr. Rebekah Neckoway, who provides care in remote fly-in communities. “My hope is that it will remove th