Besrour Centre/College of Family Physicians Canada

This partnership is a first-in-Canada agreement between the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and the College of Family Physicians of Canada, which provides the Faculty’s Department of Family Medicine access to a wide network of international collaborators. The partnership provides opportunities to share expertise and resources on a global scale in education and research training in the field of family medicine.

This collaboration trains professionals of excellence to serve society, who base their work on respect for human life and dignity. The collaboration fosters academic exchange, and international scholarly communication, and strengthens ties in the areas of family medicine, interdisciplinary education, and health equity.

Partnership established in 2022.

Guyana Ministry of Health and Georgetown Public Hospital 

This tripartite collaboration between the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Guyana Ministry of Health and Georgetown Public hospital enables the uOttawa FoM to participate in the delivery of a three-year Master of Medicine in Family Medicine offered by the University of Guyana. The Family Medicine Training Program of the University of Guyana has graduated over 20 physicians since 2014, and several of these graduates have taken on leadership roles in their communities. The Family Medicine Training Program now runs independently of the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine participation. The current focus of the partnership activities are the development of bidirectional research capacity, and resident and Faculty mobility.

Visit the Department of Family Medicine’s page to learn more.

Partnership established in 2014.

Institut Régional de Santé Publique (IRSP) Alfred Comlan Quenum (Benin)

The collaboration between the IRSP and the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine primarily focuses on the fields of teaching, training, and research. Activities in these fields include bi-directional learning in Public Health and Epidemiology and Public Health research. Specialists can participate in scientific meetings and seminars, with the partnership’s combined resources allowing participation in both national and international competitions in various fields of public health services. 

Pedagogical development and innovation are priorities for the partnership, with bi-directional training in pedagogy for health professionals, and the development of educational activities for the specific needs of francophones. This includes problem-based learning, simulated clinical sessions and clinical skills development.

Partnership established in 2007.

Université Abomey-Calavi (Benin)

This longstanding partnership between the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and Université Abomey-Calavi (Benin) provides learners from both institutions with many opportunities for learning, achieved through participation in joint conferences and seminars, joint scientific work, and continuous learner and faculty exchanges every year.  
Over the past 20 years, undergraduate and resident learner mobility has been the cornerstone of the success of this partnership and saw multiple cohorts’ complete clinical elective internships. More recently, an expansion of reciprocal online and in-person pedagogical activities has been met with great success and encouraging feedback from Beninese and Canadian physicians alike.

Both UAC and the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine have expressed interest in further expanding partnership activities, including by creating opportunities for joint research and joint supervision activities, further solidifying the ties between both partner institutions, and promoting la Francophonie in medicine.

Partnership established in 2003.

Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (Tanzania)

The uOttawa Faculty of Medicine’s collaboration with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo) is based on mutual academic goals in teaching, research, and medicine—particularly in the fields of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and immunology.

This partnership involves the planning and inauguration of activities through three interrelated pathways: 

• Clinical Partnership Activities: Enhanced clinical skills, leadership training and mentorship in clinical research and teaching.  
• Public Health Partnership Activities: Education of the future public health workforce and collaborative research on priority public health issues.
• Student Mobility and Coordination Activities: bi-directional exchanges and joint coordination with a focus on shared benefits.

Reciprocal learning and exchange opportunities have been developed for uOttawa and KCMUCo learners and faculty members. This includes community health internships, clinical elective internships and training opportunities, public health placements, research practicums and more, both in Canada and Tanzania. 

Over the past years, this partnership has allowed the expansion of clinical global health training and knowledge exchange within different specialties as well as public health outreach, education, practice and research further solidifying the ties between both partner institutions, based on ethical concepts for capacity-building and sustainability in face of global health inequities.

Partnership established in December 2021.

University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

The University of Cambridge’s Department of Clinical Neurosciences and uOttawa’s Faculty of Medicine partnered to promote and further academic links between both institutions by discussing areas of possible collaboration on Brain and Mind research, such as staff and student exchanges, collaborative research, and the exchange of scientific and scholarly materials.

Partnership established in December 2022.

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

This partnership between the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine, the uOttawa Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation, and the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences has two agreements, the Collaboration on Drug Discovery against COVID-19 and the Joint Research Centre on Systems and Personalized Pharmacology. Both agreements provide opportunities for scientific collaboration, training and research opportunities for learners and Faculty, exchange of academic materials, and symposia in China and Canada.

Partnership established in 2017.

University of Fukui (Japan)

The University of Fukui and the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine’s partnership provides a framework for strengthening collaboration, including visiting scholar exchanges, knowledge transfers and the continuation and development of joint research programs, workshops, and seminars in the field of obstetrics and gynecology.

This partnership is lead by Dr. Benjamin Tsang — recipient of a prestigious and honorary doctorate from the University of Fukui for his vital research used for the development of new therapy for chemo-resistant ovarian cancer. Together, uOttawa’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the University of Fukui’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Faculty of Medical Sciences produced many collaborative research projects, joint publications and presentations at national and international meetings and student mobility. The partnership also developed new funding opportunities in the field of obstetrics and gynecology between Canada and Japan.

Partnership established in 1999.

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SHUTCM)

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine created China-Canada Center of Research for Digestive Disease to focus on areas of research, graduate training, and coordinating academic discussions on digestive diseases, cancer, and inflammation research that will lead to mutual benefit and potential for scientific impact.

This partnership involves activities such as mobility of professors and researchers to organize symposia on digestive diseases, cancer, and inflammation, facilitating researchers’ sabbaticals for collaborative projects or training, creating exchange programs for staff and learners, conducting joint research projects, and the exchange of research findings.

Partnership established in 2015.