The Northern Ontario School of Medicine has approved infrastructure funding for the City of Lakes Family Health Team to expand and upgrade its clinical facilities for clinical learning purposes.
Our clinics are clinical teaching sites for NOSM students and residents as well as learners from other disciplines such as nursing and pharmacy.
This initiative builds on an affiliation between the City of Lakes Family Health Team and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in which medical learners are educated in an interdisciplinary primary care setting.
The learners assess and plan for patient care in a collaborative manner while learning about the role of each profession at the clinic- such as nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and dietitians. Students and residents are guided by a family physician preceptor.
A total of $126,000 has been granted for the provision of additional exam rooms, medical equipment, information technology and videoconferencing. The funding comes from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.