Canada is home to thousands of experienced International Medical Graduates (IMGs) and other foreign-trained professionals, many of whom are refugees, who are unable to use their many skills and assets here in Canada
Bursaries for Indigenous Medical Students
September 29, 2022by jasminht
Indigenous peoples face significant barriers to postsecondary education. Achieving a medical degree is an even steeper climb.
Supporting Applications to Medical School
September 29, 2022by jasminht
While financial aid is frequently the largest obstacle facing students who aspire to attend medical school, many students from underrepresented groups also lack a mentor to help guide them and provide support throughout their journey to medical school.
Universities across Canada have recently made changes to their admission process to help increase the number of Black medical students.
Bursaries for Medical Students in Africa
September 29, 2022by jasminht
The cost of University education in Malawi is too much of a financial burden for students from under-resourced, often rural communities.
Alberta, like the rest of the provinces in Canada, is facing a shortage of physicians that is affecting the healthcare needs of Albertans across the province.
Recently Completed Projects
August 8, 2021by jasminht
The Canadian Medical Foundation worked alongside organizations in Canada and outside of Canada to stop the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19
We are proud to announce the completion of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Project in Northwest Syria, in partnership with the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-Canada (UOSSM Canada)
Through CMF’s Stop the Gaps Program, our project with GlobalMedic will support the needs of families living in camps in northwest Syria by providing them with Family Emergency Kits (FEKs) which have been developed as a holistic solution to serve multiple needs faced by families in crisis.
Greatest Need
March 27, 2021by jasminht
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The Canadian Medical Foundation acknowledges Toronto is on the traditional territory of many nations including the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The land at Bathurst Street was once the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River.
