Press Release
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) received notice March 6 that all undergraduate medical students in the 2012 graduating class successfully matched to Canadian residency programs on their first attempt.
This is the third time that NOSM is the only Canadian medical school in more than 10 years to have all students matched in the first round of matches of the Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS).
“What an exciting time for our fourth-year MD students!” enthused NOSM dean Dr. Strasser.
“Not only have the . . . medical students obtained entry into their first-choice residency programs, but they have also showed how highly-regarded NOSM medical students are across the country,” he added.
“I congratulate each student in the graduating class of 2012 on this notable success.”
In the final year of medical school, each student must apply for residency training to become a fully-trained physician.
Post-graduate residency programs are offered at all Canadian medical schools in various disciplines (i.e., family medicine, anesthesia, dermatology, orthopedic surgery, etc.) ranging in duration from two-five years, or more.
Acceptance to a residency program involves students applying to medical school in a discipline of their choice.
Students then are invited to participate in an interview with the school.
After the interview process, both the student and the program they have applied to rank each other for preference through CaRMS.
CaRMS then matches students, based on rankings, to post-graduate residency programs across Canada.
“Once again, NOSM’s medical students have proven that the training and preparation received through NOSM’s model of distributed, community-engaged medical education is developing physicians who are sought after by medical programs across the country,” said Dr. Lisa Graves, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education at NOSM.
“Across Northern Ontario, physicians, faculty, and staff at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine should be proud of their contributions to this success,” she added.
Seventeen MD students from NOSM’s undergraduate program have chosen to continue to train in residency programs offered in Northern Ontario.
Specialties to which students matched include family medicine, psychiatry, anesthesia, dermatology, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, radiation oncology, internal medicine, obstetrics, and gynecology.
