Moving To Communities Throughout Md Undergraduate...

[GlassCastle]

Hi Everyone,

 

So I have been looking into NOSMs community involvement the last few days and I have a few questions to those of you who may have friends in the program ext.

 

First I will give some context: I am an out of province applicant. My husband is a law school student, and we have two small children.

 

Since these stints of living/ working in other communities are quite long (from a couple weeks the first year to 8 months the third year) I'm wondering if anyone knows how far most of these communities are away from the main centers (Thunder bay and Sudbury). Also wondering if anyone knows NOSM med students who had families and whether the whole family came along or what they do?

[rural_roots]

Hi ontariobound!

 

This should help a little bit:

 

http://www.nosm.ca/map/

 

I assume the shorter stays in communities in first and second year will be able to be worked out with you and your husband, but it would be the 8-month longitudinal clerkship that could be tricky.  There are some clerkship communities like North Bay, for instance, which are only 125km away from Sudbury.  Others, however, are more remote - like Hearst, which is nearly a 3 hour drive just to get to Timmins.  It is a lottery in terms of who goes where, where you rank your choices and an algorithm spits out which lucky soul gets to go to Kapuskasing haha

 

A friend and mentor moved to Temiskaming Shores to do her clerkship year with her 2 week old baby.  If NOSM is where you want to go, then it is assumed that you are open to ending up at any of these places that are largely under-serviced and need physicians, and to do that, exposure to these communities throughout the program as a learner is essential.

 

Moving a family around I'm sure will be difficult, but I know people who have kids during med school and move around during the program as it will be worth it in the end! 

 

Hope this was helpful

 

RR

[GlassCastle]

Thank you so much for the reply and information. I very much look forward to the opportunity to work in these communities, I was just curious about the logistics of it but if your friend took her baby there must be a way to find childcare ect.

 

Thanks again!