MT_93 Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hey Guys, Im an OOP and wanted to know how is it for OOP ppl applying. Do have preference to Ontario applicants? Also how do they calculate GPA if i did 1st year 8 courses, 2nd year 10 classes, 3rd year 10 classes, 4th year 6 classes, 5th year 6 classes Degree completed. I know for UofC they'll only take yeas with 8 or more courses, and with a degree drop lowest year given that in the remaining years you have two years with 5&5, so they only use 2nd and 3rd year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medicallyinclined Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 NOSM looks at all undergrad courses taken towards a degree. If you have two degrees they take the best degree GPA. Google "NOSM admissions" its pretty transparent. Also it is pretty difficult to get into NOSM as an OOP applicant, unless you have rural ties. http://www.nosm.ca/classprofiles/ if you go to that website you will see that every year only about 4 people get in per year out of province and it states they are from rural or remote areas. Best of luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithrandir Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 NOSM definitely picks most of its student's from north western ontario, but also focuses on rural medicine, so if you're from another rural/northern community outside of Ontario, apply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotsanddots Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 so has no one heard of an OOP getting in who's not from a rural area? what about if you have done work in global/rural health? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amichel Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 so has no one heard of an OOP getting in who's not from a rural area? what about if you have done work in global/rural health? edit: nvm I confused myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDwannabe02 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 NOSM definitely picks most of its student's from north western ontario, but also focuses on rural medicine, so if you're from another rural/northern community outside of Ontario, apply! Not exclusively Northwestern Ontario, but Northern Ontario. Anywhere in Northeastern Ontario and places like Parry Sound are within NOSM's catchment, so people from anywhere from this area and north/west will likely have a pretty good context acore when applying to NOSM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabaster Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 I don't really get those stats though. For example, the entering class of 2012 (I assume this means class of 2016, since NOSM was only founded in 2005) contains at least one person that is definitely "from" a major urban centre outside of Ontario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_ _ Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 What's the consensus on being very rural (like <1000pop. during childhood/high school family still there) but OOP? I keep flip-flopping about NSOM and money is very tight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rural_roots Posted September 23, 2015 Report Share Posted September 23, 2015 What's the consensus on being very rural (like <1000pop. during childhood/high school family still there) but OOP? I keep flip-flopping about NSOM and money is very tight I think size of community might be second to the community's proximity to urban centers. For instance, how many km is it to get to a hospital? Those sorts of factors might be more indicative of your potential context score, but I'm speculating - everyone agrees it's a bit of a mystery. If you are quite rural, but OOP, I still think you should apply if you want to attend a rural medical education program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_ _ Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 I think size of community might be second to the community's proximity to urban centers. For instance, how many km is it to get to a hospital? Those sorts of factors might be more indicative of your potential context score, but I'm speculating - everyone agrees it's a bit of a mystery. If you are quite rural, but OOP, I still think you should apply if you want to attend a rural medical education program. About 50km from a 5000pop town with the hospital. A few community clinics closer. But if you were about to have a baby, or needed an operation or a catscan, for example, it was a 45min drive on a highway. About 150km from a large city (250,000) And I do plan on being a community gp regardless. I've never been North though, so of course I can't say for sure I'd do north. However I can't see it being an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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