Financial Sustainability
President’s Report
NOSM University is a new university. Over the last two decades as a medical school, it has established an international reputation as a socially accountable agent of change, tackling the physician shortage in Northern Ontario. As a government strategy, it has repeatedly demonstrated an unparalleled return on investment as we deliver on our mandate to improve access to health care for the people of Northern Ontario.
Community
The Okanagan Charter
The Okanagan Charter Prioritizing health and wellbeing is a leading priorityNOSM University’s focus on wellbeing is guided by the Okanagan Charter, which calls upon the post-secondary sector to “transform the health and sustainability of our current and future...
NOSM University aligns education programs with societal and community needs
NOSM University aligns education programs with societal and community needs French language health services are a critical component of health equity in Northern Ontario. Since its inception, NOSM University has identified Francophones as a key population, and a group...
Temerty Foundation makes amazing investment in health equity
Temerty Foundation makes amazing investment in health equity The Temerty Foundation, established by James and Louise Temerty, has made a $10 million gift to support NOSM University medical students and to advance and grow social accountability and health equity...
Education
MD program receives full eight-year accreditation
MD program receives full eight-year accreditationThis spring, NOSM University’s flagship Medical Doctorate (MD) Degree Program received great news from the Committee on Accreditation for Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS). “On the eve of our first convocation as a fully...
Physiotherapist Brock Chisholm honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
Physiotherapist Brock Chisholm honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award If you are a rehabilitation professional in Northern Ontario, chances are good that Brock Chisholm was among the first people to give you a warm welcome to the region. A new award—the Health...
Planning
Two Northern Ontario communities share successes with recruitment
Two Northern Ontario communities share successes with recruitment Sault Ste. Marie and Sioux Lookout are great places to work—and the word is getting out Dr. Mara Boyle didn’t originally think that her career would lead her to family medicine—or to Sioux Lookout....
Transform Health Human Resources Planning
Transform Health Human Resources PlanningOne of NOSM University’s primary efforts to address the health inequities in Northern Ontario is our transformative approach to the planning and delivery of workforce supply to reduce the gaps in Northern Ontario Health human...
Research
Empowering Northern Ontario communities through research
Empowering Northern Ontario communities through research Social accountability leads to locally-driven solutions Social accountability defines NOSM University. NOSM University researchers work to support the goals of communities and partners so that local priority...
Research May 2023
ResearchIn NOSM’s first year as a university, we are proud of the collaboration across disciplines that fostered partnerships across Northern Ontario, nationally, and internationally. Notably, we celebrated the launch of the Centre for Social Accountability—a truly...
Strengthen Research Capacity in Northern Ontario
NOSM University is the connective tissue between
research entities, Northern Ontario Health Teams
(OHTs), research institutes and hospitals.
University
Financial Sustainability
Who are we?The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was established in 2002 as a key government strategy to reverse the chronic physician shortage in Northern Ontario. Twenty years later, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University Act was proclaimed into...
Working with the Dream Team
Working with the Dream Team Valuing our People The work at NOSM University would be nowhere without the people—its lifeblood. Here is our latest senior recruit and her role.NOSM University’s Provost and Vice President Academic It’s been a busy first six months for Dr....
Enablers
Awards and Recognition
There are many outstanding faculty, learners and staff at NOSM University who make a difference in their community. Miigwetch, merci and thank you for your ongoing work and commitment.
Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity
ANNUAL REPORT
It’s been two years since the Centre for Social Accountability was established at NOSM University. It was born of the principle that everyone—regardless of circumstance or geography—has a right to access health-care practitioners who are culturally competent, understand the realities of living in the rural and remote North, and lead with compassion and integrity.
The Temerty Foundation, established by James and Louise Temerty, made a $10 million gift in September 2023 to support NOSM University medical students and to advance and grow social accountability and health equity initiatives. In recognition of this transformational gift, NOSM University’s Centre for Social Accountability was renamed the Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity. This report details the achievement of the Centre’s research activities completed in the past year, impacts across the four pillars, challenges and lessons learned, and future directions.
From Informative to Transformative
THE NOSM UNIVERSITY OF TOMORROW
As we look forward with hope to the post-pandemic era, NOSM University has a window of extraordinary opportunity in which to fundamentally and strategically transform itself to meet the health research, education and health care demands of tomorrow. The turbulence caused by the global COVID-19 crisis touched—and forever changed— every element of work in which we were engaged during this historic time. The crisis revealed that the prevailing medical education paradigm, a legacy of past centuries, is outmoded, and too brittle to bend and adapt to the realities of the day. It also demonstrated the need for research and scientific discovery to respond quickly to the issues of the day, and for evidence-based clinical practice to inform public policy.