NEWS RELEASE
TIMMINS AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL
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Eight medical students of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) are being welcomed in Timmins this week as part of the School’s Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC) Program.
In 2006, a partnership was developed between NOSM and the Timmins and District Hospital resulting in TADH becoming a teaching site.
The patients, physicians and staff play a vital role in educating future doctors and health-care providers to be competent and caring physicians.
This is the eighth group of third year medical students since 2007 that will spend eight months at the Timmins and District Hospital.
During this time, the students are based and will work in primary care clinics around the City as well as in the hospital and community.
They also participate in rotations with various specialists and gain exposure with the allied health professions. It gives the students the opportunity to learn and participate in care of patients in a distinctively Northern environment.
“We are delighted to be able to continue our strong affiliation with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM),” said Roger Walker, President and CEO of Timmins and District Hospital. “We are pleased to report that since our relationship with NOSM began, we have successfully recruited new family physicians each year who have chosen Timmins as a permanent place to work and live.”
In preparation for the students’ arrival, community members and hospital staff who make up the Timmins Local NOSM Group have been busy planning activities that assist the students by providing a smooth integration into Timmins during orientation week as well as throughout the year.
The Timmins and District Hospital (TADH) is a level C, fully accredited referral and teaching hospital serving the residents of the City of Timmins and Cochrane District as well as the adjoining areas of the Temiskaming, Sudbury and Algoma districts.
The hospital offers a full range of medical, surgical, critical care, maternity, newborn, pediatric, long-term care and mental health services as well extensive health education and district services.
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