As part of NOSM University’s social accountability mandate, researchers have tracked students and graduates since the medical school opened its doors in 2005, with the goal of understanding the long-term impacts of its model of distributed, community-engaged medical education in Northern Ontario.

Formerly the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, NOSM was established “with an explicit social accountability mandate to improve health equity,” the university said in a media release, and “educates future physicians, dieticians, and health-care professionals for practise in rural, Northern, Francophone, and Indigenous communities.”

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