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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine

I have been getting emails soliciting my option about the Government of Ontario’s decision to make the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) a stand-alone university.  This is a big issue in Northern Ontario, with many people getting upset over what I think amounts to very little.  But perhaps we should rewind to the beginning. NOSM is a fairly unique medical school.  It was created in the mid-2000s to deal with a persistent shortage of doctors in Northern Ontario.  In

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April 27, 2021 2 Comments

André Picard Shills for the One Percent

You may have heard about New York University’s appalling plan to make tuition free at its medical school.  This is, I am sure, a great gimmick to promote NYU among the upper classes of the Northeastern US.  But it is a terrible use of money.  The beneficiaries will come from BY FAR the most privileged stratum of society and once they graduate they will themselves join that same ludicrously privileged stratum.  If one were trying to design a post-secondary subsidy that was as regressive as

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August 31, 2018 No Comments

Offshore Medical Schools

One of the most interesting (to me, anyways) facets of international higher education is the phenomenon of international medical schools. In North America, we associate these exclusively with medical schools in the Caribbean.  These mainly for-profit institutions have little research capacity and mainly teach students who are unable to get into mainstream domestic institution (they were most famously satirized in Doonesbury, when the famously dissolute Duke went to Port-au-Prince to open the Baby Doc School of Offshore Medicine in Port-au-Prince). 

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November 4, 2016 1 Comment

Re-Imagining an Arts Curriculum

Basically, Canadian higher education programs can be divided into two types.  First, are programs that must be accredited, and where graduates’ ability to work in their field is tied to accreditation (e.g. Law, Medicine, Engineering).  These programs start with desired outcomes, and work backwards to make sure that graduates have the skills required to meet professional certification.  Second, there are the Arts and Sciences, which more closely resemble a free-for-all, in which curriculum is driven at least as much by

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May 20, 2014 4 Comments

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