This is the story of how 800,000 citizens created their own school of medicine, and what it has meant for the region and its people.
Northern Ontario is a vast territory — almost as big as France and Germany combined — with a widely scattered population the size of only 10% of the rest of the province. Rich in forests, minerals, scenery and brilliant, hardy people, Ontario’s north, like many other rural and remote areas, had difficulties attracting and keeping doctors. The solution, they decided, was to train their own.

An astonishing percentage of graduates remain to serve the unique needs of their home communities, from rural, to Indigenous, to Francophone. Over the course of twenty years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine has transformed healthcare and created a legacy of a school that is far from ordinary.

Larry Krotz, écrivain et réalisateur de documentaires, a écrit pour The Globe and Mail, le National Post, la Literary Review of Canada, Saturday Night et The Walrus.Au fil de sa carrière, il a exploré les effets de nos actions dans le monde. Il a publié dix essais, notamment Diagnosing the Legacy: The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth et Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa, et un roman.M. Krotz vit à Toronto (Ontario).

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