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Article: Northern Rural Medical School becomes a reality: Plans to create a medical school in the North will be a shot-in-the-arm for Northern Ontario's ailing health care system. (Fednor Update).(Brief Article)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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The official announcement -- the first new medical school to be created in Canada in more than 30 years -- was made this past spring, following a concentrated lobbying effort by numerous partners and stakeholders across the North. As part of this effort, FedNor contributed more than $250 000 to fund the development of the model and proposal for a Northern Rural Medical School (NORMS), and an international symposium.
"It's very exciting to be involved in building a new medical school for Northern Ontario," says Mary Louise Hill, Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. "Doctors who are trained in the North are more likely to ...