Author(s)	Larry Krotz
Publisher	Cormorant Books
Publication Year	2021

ISBN: 9781770866386

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Nothing Ordinary

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The Story of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine

This is the story of how 800,000 citizens created their own school of medicine, and what it has meant for the region and its people.

Northern Ontario is a vast territory — almost as big as France and Germany combined — with a widely scattered population the size of only 10% of the rest of the province. Rich in forests, minerals, scenery and brilliant, hardy people, Ontario’s north, like many other rural and remote areas, had difficulties attracting and keeping doctors. The solution, they decided, was to train their own.

An astonishing percentage of graduates remain to serve the unique needs of their home communities, from rural, to Indigenous, to Francophone. Over the course of twenty years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has transformed healthcare and created a legacy of a school that is far from ordinary.

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Larry Krotz

Larry Krotz is a writer and documentary filmmaker who has worked with the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Literary Review of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and PBS. He is the author of ten works of non-fiction, a novel, and a picture book. His latest book is a history of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine called Nothing Ordinary. Krotz currently lives in Toronto, ON.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Foreword In this foreword, M. Ian Bowmer discusses the founding vision for a medicine school in Northern Ontario, shaped by Dr. Roger Strasser and Dr. Arnie Aberman. View	M. Ian Bowmer	4	2021	$0.40
Introduction In this chapter, Krotz discusses how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine emerged as a community-driven response to decades of severe physician shortages in the region. View	Larry Krotz	8	2021	$0.80
What Is Northern Ontario? In this chapter, Krotz introduces Northern Ontario, a vast region comprising ninety per cent of the province’s land mass, home to Indigenous, Francophone, and settler communities. View	Larry Krotz	22	2021	$2.20
How NOSM Came to Be In this chapter, Krotz explains how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine emerged from a decades-long struggle to address the chronic physician shortage across northern communities. View	Larry Krotz	21	2021	$2.10
Hiring a Dean: Roger Strasser In this chapter, Krotz traces the 2002 appointment of Dr. Roger Strasser as founding dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, a pioneering rural medical institution. View	Larry Krotz	26	2021	$2.60
Growing Pains In this chapter, Krotz explains how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, established in 2002, charted a uniquely distributed medical education model across Sudbury and Thunder Bay, drawing on … View	Larry Krotz	16	2021	$1.60
Serving Francophone Communities In this chapter, Krotz traces how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine worked to serve Francophone and Indigenous communities. View	Larry Krotz	19	2021	$1.90
Healthcare and Indigenous People In this chapter, Krotz traces the relationship between healthcare delivery and Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario, from Treaty 3 in 1873 through to the 2018 appointment of NOSM’s … View	Larry Krotz	33	2021	$3.30
NOSM and the Economy and Culture of the North In this chapter, Krotz examines how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, functions within a region long defined by extractive colonialism. View	Larry Krotz	14	2021	$1.40
Two Towns: Espanola, Chapleau In this chapter, Krotz traces how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine reshaped healthcare in Espanola and Chapleau, where physician shortages left communities struggling for consistent … View	Larry Krotz	15	2021	$1.50
Two More Towns: Dryden, Sioux Lookout In this chapter, Krotz examines Dryden and Sioux Lookout in Northern Ontario, tracing their economic and healthcare struggles from the 1880s through the present. View	Larry Krotz	12	2021	$1.20
NOSM and the Broader World In this chapter, Krotz traces how the Northern Ontario School of Medicine evolved from a regional institution into a globally recognized model of socially accountable medical education. View	Larry Krotz	10	2021	$1.00
How Is NOSM Doing? In this chapter, Krotz examines the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s progress toward its founding mandate. View	Larry Krotz	25	2021	$2.50
Afterword The afterword by Dr. Penny Moody-Corbett reflects on the legacy of Northern Ontario School of Medicine and situates the school within the broader Canadian landscape, examining its Relationship … View	Penny Moody-Corbett	4	2021	$0.40
Acknowledgements This "chapter" is an acknowledgements section. View	Larry Krotz	3	2021	$0.30
Bibliography This "chapter" is a bibliography. View	Larry Krotz	5	2021	$0.50
Index This "chapter" is an index. View	Larry Krotz	8	2021	$0.80

Nothing Ordinary

The Story of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Contributors

Larry Krotz

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