Financial Assistance

OMA

Ontario Medical Student Bursary Fund

The Ontario Medical Student Bursary Fund (OMSBF) is a cooperative effort of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), the Ontario Medical Foundation (OMF), Ontario Faculties of Medicine and donors including individual physicians, corporations, foundations and others who wish to help safeguard the future of medicine in Ontario. OMSBF bursaries will be directed to needy medical students studying at Ontario's participating Faculties of Medicine. Bursaries in the amount of $3,000 are available to Ontario medical students.

Ontario Medical Foundation Elective Bursaries

Each year the Ontario Medical Association awards two prizes of $500 to Ontario's six medical schools. These prizes are used to help student members finance electives in rural and remote areas throughout Canada, as well as in developing nations. For more information about the Ontario Medical Foundation Elective Bursaries, please contact the OMSBF for more information.

Student Leadership Development Subsidy Program

Funding of up to $500 is available for selected OMA student members to attend approved medical conferences in both Canada and abroad. All applications are reviewed by fellow students and those selected candidates are invited to submit conference reports for possible publication in the Ontario Medical Review. Application forms and the guidelines for the applications can be retrieved from the provided link.

If you have difficulty with the above link, please contact the Student Relations Department.

Final Year Medical Student Bursary Application

The Final Year Medical Student Bursary provides a bursary of $500 per month, paid quarterly, to students in their final 12 months of study in an Ontario medical school.

OMA Medical Student Achievement Award

This award is presented annually to one student from each of the five Ontario medical schools, recognizing outstanding initiative at the political and/or community level to help advance the life and education of all medical students. The award has a monetary value of $200. Nomination forms are mailed in August to medical school deans, and the vice-president external of each school's medical society.

For more information please contact OMA Constituency Services at 1-800-268-7215 ext.2912

Ontario Government

• Ontario Underserviced Area Program
• Ontario Student Assistance Program
• Free Tuition Program
• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Rural Clerkship Program

Federal Government

• Canada Millenium Scholarship
• Canada Student Loans

Have cash but can't manage it?

When you become a member of the Ontario Medical Association, you also automatically become a member of the Canadian Medical Association. You join more than 48,000 medical students, residents and practising physicians who speak as one on the issues affecting you and provide a diverse list of member benefits and services.

Through MD Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association, OMA/CMA members have immediate access to top-notch financial advice and up to the minute financial information. More information about MD Management can be found at the provided link:

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