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The Social Impact Funding Program – Medical Summer Student Research Program (MSSRP) stream is a continued collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine’s Research Office, offering two ways of student engagement in research for the program’s social accountability priority area: faculty-initiated and community-led. This year, we matched 7 students to projec...

Hosted by the Office of Social Accountability, the Social Impact Program, SHARE stream offers Faculty of Medicine learners the chance to enhance the social impact of their research activities. Students were invited to submit proposals focused on building or strengthening partnerships with communities or other stakeholders and mobilizing knowledge to be...

This year, the offices of Social Accountability and Francophone Affairs at the Faculty of Medicine partnered with the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa (ATEHO) to facilitate, for the first time, an experiential learning activity called The Empathy Project. This activity was co-designed by ATEHO and people with lived experience of homelessness.

Students waiting in line outside classrooms. Groups chatting in the atrium. Lively exchanges and gatherings. What looked like any other day at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine wasn’t really what it seemed.

The grant will allow researchers to better understand the dynamics of community engagement and how it can improve health outcomes in communities.

The Social Accountability Student Advisory Committee is working to help create a more inclusive health care system.

The Faculty of Medicine is stepping up as a leader in planetary stewardship to protect the health of populations, setting a precedent for medical schools in Canada.