The Northern Ontario School of Medicine will soon be training medical students using the facilities of Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. This is a welcome development as our area of Canada is especially short of family physicians. It is estimated that there are thirty to forty thousand “orphan” patients (no family physician) in Thunder Bay alone. It is expected that many medical students trained in Northwestern Ontario will stay to enjoy their medical practice coupled with a great lifestyle. Thunder Bay will accept 24 students per year until the four-year program sees its first graduates. A post graduate program is also planned to further enhance the learning and practice opportunities of physicians and researchers.

For further information, please visit the NOSM website.