Opportunities for Recruiting French-speakers in Health Sciences


THUNDER BAY – Opportunities for Recruiting French-speakers in Health Sciences – Live coverage of recruitment luncheon from Thunder Bay.

Speaker will be Patrick Mainville from La Cité collégiale, Ontario’s largest French-speaking college. He is the Coordinator of the La Cité stream of the Consortium national de formation en santé (National Consortium on Health Sciences Education).

He’ll be in Thunder Bay to talk about La Cité’s graduates in health care and to share information about a financial program that they administer that pays for the travel and accommodation of their students and graduates doing internships in rural communities.

Some of the streams that La Cité offers are:

– nursing assistant
– psw
– physiotherapy and occupational therapy assistants
– pharmacy technician
– respatory therapist
– dental care
– dental hygiene
– paramedic and advance paramedic training
– social work
– social work with specialization in gerontology

Event Sponsors are Réseau de soutien à l’immigration francophone du Nord de l’Ontario and Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission.