摘要: : The new Northern Ontario Rural Medical School is to be developed have a significant impact on the education, recruitment, and retention of physicians in rural northern Canada. It will collaborative partnership between Laurentian University, Sudbury Lakehead Thunder Bay (1000 km apart), network learning sites throughout (almost 1 000 000 km2). The curriculum patient-centred, clinical problem-based, systems-organised, with health determinant focus, Aboriginal content context. Small group used distributed advanced information technology support. aim graduate highly qualified state-of-the-art medical enhanced knowledge, skills, interest, Aboriginal, rural, northern, under serviced healthcare.