THUNDER BAY -- The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is celebrating its tenth year at Lakehead University, and this semester, the first-year class of future doctors has a strong female contingent.
A full 75 per cent of the entrants are women, and there's also more than 10 per cent of Aboriginal and Francophone students.
Each year the school accepts 64 students out of almost 2,500 applicants to embark on their program, and this year like many the vast majority of students selected were female.
Something NOSM Associate Dean David Musson said isn't that unusual.
About 415 Medical Doctors have graduated from NOSM, and 92 per cent of which originally residing in northern Ontario. This is something the School takes much pride in.
Taking local students across northern Ontario and having them complete their MD and Residency then go back into smaller northern markets and be able to provide medical care to people who wouldn’t have been able to have it otherwise.
Not only does NOSM prepare their students for the north but also for the possibility to branch off to larger markets and continue their medical careers.
(TBT News)
