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Health partnership agreement gives health care students and workers better access to training

College Boreal, Sensenbrenner Hospital in Kapuskasing, and the local medical education group have signed a partnership agreement…providing improved training for health care students and workers.

Education group president Dr. Julie Boucher says the agreement is something that’s always been in the back of their minds for a number of years.

“If you can have a place where people can come to sharpen their skills to maintain their skills easily and repeatedly — that this is really excellent to our staff that is presently here,” she said.

The Education Group is a funding model from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. The new plan gives access to the simulation lab in Kap for continuing education and recruitment events.

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Local medical education group president Dr. Julie Boucher.
Simulation lab at College Boreal.

Hospital executive director France Dallaire says the partnership will go a long way to help with the shortage of workers.

“We have done some good work with the college in the past to offer incentives to recruit those students, so we are going to keep working at this and hopefully encourage them to stay in our communities,” she said.

Kap campus director Michelle Lebel says the equipment and knowledge of community partners will help plan mentoring programs, develop research projects and promote health careers in the future.

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