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Building the New Northern Ontario Rural Medical School
Author(s) -
Rourke James T. B.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1584.2002.00455.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , curriculum , context (archaeology) , rural area , rural health , medical school , health care , medical education , northern territory , medicine , geography , family medicine , political science , sociology , pedagogy , archaeology , pathology , law
The new Northern Ontario Rural Medical School is to be developed to have a significant impact on the education, recruitment, and retention of physicians in rural and northern Ontario and Canada. It will be a collaborative partnership between Laurentian University, Sudbury and Lakehead University, Thunder Bay (1000 km apart), and will have a network of learning sites throughout Northern Ontario (almost 1 000 000 km2). The curriculum will be patient‐centred, clinical problem‐based, and systems‐organised, with a significant health determinant focus, and Aboriginal health content and context. Small group learning will be used in a distributed learning network with advanced information technology support. The new Northern Ontario Rural Medical School will aim to graduate highly qualified physicians with state‐of‐the‐art medical education, with enhanced knowledge, skills, and interest, in Aboriginal, rural, northern, and under serviced healthcare.