Canadian physician believes that it will turn the country’s medical training model on its head, when its focused more on family medicines, since three new medical schools are opening soon in Canada.
Interim Dean of the new Simon Fraser University medical school and Founding Dean of the Northern Ontario school of medicine (NOSM), Dr. Roger Strasser said to rise a physician, it takes a community.
A major shift happened over a century ago, where medical school education in North America moved the training and teaching of new doctors from communities into universities. They learnt basic science, got good experience in hospitals and research on patient care.
Stress for Patients, physicians and communities exist, when there is a shortage of family doctors. At Simon Fraser University, the Dean hired to lead new medical school students, spend more time at the big University- affiliated teaching hospitals. Most of the Canadian check their health walk-in-clinic or visit to their family doctor, where a wider range of problems are seen.
In September 2005, The Northern Ontario school of medicine accepted 56 students for its first class. The first independent medical university in Canada also Known as NOSM University.
In April 2022 it was the first to establish with social accountability mandate- to improve the peoples health in the communities of Northern Ontario. The student’s objectives are the same, they learn more by seeing patients who visit their family doctor instead of learning them in teaching hospitals, in separate blocks.
The first doctors graduated within the first 10 years. 92% practiced in Northern Ontario and 77% stayed back in family medicines. Simon Fraser’s Strasser Knows that health care professionals are tired and may not be able to take students and the system is under pressure, but his experience in Ontario showed him, by teaching medical students and motivate the students can enrich the entire team. Strasser says high- quality health care close to home are expected by the Canadians, so they are excited to see what the new medical education models represent.
