Other Funds to Support
How will my money be used?
When you use the form on this page to make a donation to NOSM University, you will choose a fund to which you will contribute. Expand the text below to learn more about each fund.
CampMed
CampMed is NOSM University’s annual summer camp that inspires high school students to consider a future as a health-care professional. The camp provides Northern Ontario and rural and remote students of Canada with an opportunity to obtain hands-on experience, receive mentorship, and explore Indigenous culture, Francophone culture, health and tradition, and health-care careers.
CampMed has been a successful pathway to medicine at NOSM University:
- 674 total campers, including 23 who have since been admitted to NOSM University
- 75 university student volunteers since 2016, including ten who have since been admitted to NOSM University
- 167 Indigenous campers
- 238 Francophone campers
- 245 campers from more than 48 different communities in Northern Ontario
We hope that you will consider contributing to this important work of inspiring the youth of Northern Ontario to see themselves as the health-care professionals of the future.
Dr. Sarita Verma Awards for Distinguished Leadership
Established in 2024 with the retirement of Dr. Sarita Verma, NOSM University’s inaugural President, Vice-Chancellor, CEO, and second Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Dr. Verma served as Dean from July 1, 2019, to March 30, 2022, then became President, Vice-Chancellor, Dean, and CEO when NOSM was proclaimed Canada’s first independent medical University on April 1, 2022.
The Dr. Sarita Verma Awards for Distinguished Leadership have been established to recognize and celebrate outstanding leadership qualities among learners, staff, and faculty members at NOSM University. These awards aim to honor individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, contributed significantly to the University community, and served as inspiring role models for others.
General Research Fund for Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity
This fund supports research at the Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity.
Library Resource Fund
The Library Resource Fund helps the library purchase resources to train the next generation of health-care professionals. Support ensures that faculty and learners can access relevant and up-to-date health resources and research.
By investing in the growth of our digital library collection, you help provide access to the evidence needed to investigate a question, learn and teach health-related concepts, or diagnosis and treat an illness. The virtual collection directly supports the education, research, and clinical activities of library users by providing access to online books and journals, from anywhere across Northern Ontario, when it is needed most.
To learn about the services provided by NOSM University’s Health Sciences Library, please visit the library website.
Physician Workforce Strategy
The Physician Workforce Strategy was created to solve the issue of physician shortages in Northern Ontario, and particularly in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities. The Strategy helps support the creation of regional clinical networks of care. It aims to find sustainable solutions to physician recruitment and retention and create new forms of health-care education and service delivery, including a Rural Generalist Pathway program, the University’s First Nations residency program, and funding models to support physicians in a maturing medical school, including physicians in rural and remote communities. Overall, the University is looking to build a robust health-care workforce in the region with physicians who, in addition to their regular clinical services, teach the next generation of physicians and research the questions that matter to our communities.
The Physician Workforce strategy is aligned with NOSM University’s mission to improve the health of Northern Ontarians by being socially accountable in our education and research programs and advocating for health equity. The fund is utilized to drive this work.
Research
Research is at the heart of NOSM University. As Canada’s first and only independent medical university, our research aims to improve health care and health equity across Northern Ontario and Canada. We are doing this by connecting communities, researchers, and hospitals.
At NOSM University, research is recognized as a critical component of the distributed community-engaged model for which we’re internationally recognized. Researchers are working on critical projects across multiple themes, including: clinical and translational health; biomedical and basic sciences; population and public health; and humanities and social sciences. Your donation directly supports NOSM University researchers in developing better health-care solutions for peoples in Northern, rural, and Indigenous communities.
The innovative Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity is NOSM University’s central hub for socially accountable and health equity research. It is the first of its kind in Canada—a model for multidisciplinary, community-led, and community-prioritized health and public health multidisciplinary research. The Centre is advancing social accountability research globally and locally by working and collaborating with diverse stakeholders in the broad areas of health professional education, health system transformation, health human resources, social and population health, and social determinants of health. Home to a growing number of research networks, everyone at the Dr. Gilles Arcand Centre for Health Equity is focused on building capacity and providing tools for change.
Your support of research at NOSM University will go a long way to increasing our ability to do this important work. Together, we will fund researchers to go into remote communities and will train learners to be exceptional researchers and primary care physicians. Join us in creating a better future for Northern Ontarians.
Contact research@nosm.ca for more information on research projects.