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Table 1 Per capita and employment impact of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and related programs in Northern Ontario a

From: Distributed education enables distributed economic impact: the economic contribution of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to communities in Canada

 

Greater Sudbury CMA b

Thunder Bay CMA

Sault Ste. Marie CA c

North Bay CA

Timmins CA

Kenora CA

Sioux Lookout CSD d

Temiskaming Shores CSD+ e

All other participating Northern Ontario communities

Intra-regional economic impact f

Total for Northern Ontario

2016 Census Population

164,689

121,621

78,159

70,378

41,788

15,096

5272

12,940

257,802 (average 3263)

–

859,994

Income Multiplier [35, 36]

1.51

1.47

1.44

1.43

1.28

1.27

1.17

1.27

1.16

–

1.66

Per capita impact

$228

$294

$56

$40

$47

$68

$155

$75

$30

–

$125

Employment Impact Full Time Equivalents

264

248

21

23

7

5

6

5

42

81

702

Number of NOSM-trained physicians practising in community g

57

59

30

26

20

5

9

3

47 h

–

256

Economic impact of physicians (millions)

$17.8

$18.4

$9.3

$8.1

$6.2

$1.6

$2.8

$0.9

$14.6 h

$8.0

$87.7

  1. aNorthern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) educational programs and research activities, the Paymaster program for medical resident salaries, the academic Alternate Funding Plan for clinical teaching reimbursement, and spending by learners
  2. bCMA Census Metropolitan Area
  3. cCA Census Agglomeration
  4. dCSD Census Subdivision
  5. eCSD+ Census Subdivision plus all areas that comprised the former CA
  6. fImpact was calculated as the difference between the total for the region and sum for participating communities. Population size, multiplier, and per capita impact were not applicable
  7. gIncluded family physicians and other medical or surgical specialists who completed undergraduate or postgraduate medical education or both at NOSM and had been in fully qualified practice for at least one year as of November 2018
  8. hThis value included all other communities in the service region with NOSM-trained physicians, regardless of whether the communities participated in NOSM programs