High honours for a Northwestern Ontario doctor.
Dryden’s Adam Moir has been recognized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians and the provincial government for his work in grooming medical learners.
He says having medical students training and learning in local hospitals and living in our communities is critical in physician recruitment and retention.
Dr. Moir says, “That’s a workforce that we need to fill and historically it was much, much harder for rural residents to get into medical school and to pursue post-secondary school and nursing and things like that. NOSM and the Confederation College and Lakehead University programs are eliminating some of those barriers.”
He notes these students are spending money in our communities and interacting with others and making them feel welcome is key to keeping future physicians in northern Ontario
Dr. Moir is a NOSM graduate himself.
