Table 1.

Per capita and employment impact of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and related programs in Northern Ontario ^a

	Greater Sudbury CMA b	Thunder Bay CMA	Sault Ste. Marie CA c	North Bay CA	Timmins CA	Kenora CA	Sioux Lookout CSD d	Temiskaming Shores CSD+ e	All other participating Northern Ontario communities	Intra-regional economic impact f	Total for Northern Ontario
2016 Census Population	164,689	121,621	78,159	70,378	41,788	15,096	5272	12,940	257,802 (average 3263)	–	859,994
Income Multiplier [35, 36]	1.51	1.47	1.44	1.43	1.28	1.27	1.17	1.27	1.16	–	1.66
Per capita impact	$228	$294	$56	$40	$47	$68	$155	$75	$30	–	$125
Employment Impact Full Time Equivalents	264	248	21	23	7	5	6	5	42	81	702
Number of NOSM-trained physicians practising in community g	57	59	30	26	20	5	9	3	47 h	–	256
Economic impact of physicians (millions)	$17.8	$18.4	$9.3	$8.1	$6.2	$1.6	$2.8	$0.9	$14.6 h	$8.0	$87.7

^aNorthern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) educational programs and research activities, the Paymaster program for medical resident salaries, the academic Alternate Funding Plan for clinical teaching reimbursement, and spending by learners

^bCMA Census Metropolitan Area

^cCA Census Agglomeration

^dCSD Census Subdivision

^eCSD+ Census Subdivision plus all areas that comprised the former CA

^fImpact was calculated as the difference between the total for the region and sum for participating communities. Population size, multiplier, and per capita impact were not applicable

^gIncluded family physicians and other medical or surgical specialists who completed undergraduate or postgraduate medical education or both at NOSM and had been in fully qualified practice for at least one year as of November 2018

^hThis value included all other communities in the service region with NOSM-trained physicians, regardless of whether the communities participated in NOSM programs