The Northern Ontario Academic Medicine Association (NOAMA) was created to manage, distribute and administer the Alternate Funding Plan (AFP) funding on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) and the Members. The original AFP created by the MOHLTC and the Ontario Medical Association did not cover the NOSM physician clinical faculty. Therefore a need arose for the NOSM alternate funding plan, which was signed in 2009 providing $7.1 million in annual funding. The NOSM AFP provides funds for clinical teaching, medical research, clinical innovation and recruitment of physicians to Northern Ontario.

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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) first opened their doors in September of 2005 with a vision of innovative education and research for a healthier North. It’s current success relies on a number of collaborations and partnerships, including important relationships with the aboriginal and francophone communities. Across both campuses, located in Sudbury and Thunder Bay, Ontario, NOSM conveys a distinctive model of distributed, community-engaged, and socially accountable, medical education. Northern communities play an essential role in engaging MD students in order to develop a thorough understanding of life and work in Northern Ontario.

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