Northern Ontario Resident Streamlined Training and Reimbursement Program (NORSTAR)

The Northern Ontario Resident Streamlined Training and Reimbursement Program (NORSTAR) supports increased access to northern learning experiences for medical residents, while also enabling immediate and longer-term physician support to communities in the Northeast and Northwest Ontario Health Regions.

The NORSTAR program will be piloted for three years (ending March 31, 2026) and evaluated.

The program contains three streams:

1. Postgraduate Elective Learners

This stream provides travel and accommodation expense reimbursement to medical residents completing electives in the Northeast and Northwest Ontario Health Regions.

Learn more about available Clinical Electives.

2. Locum-Learner Dyads

This stream provides travel and accommodation expense reimbursement to medical residents when accompanying faculty physicians from their home institution on locums in the Northeast and Northwest Ontario Health Regions.

3. Residents in the Restricted Registration Program

This stream provides travel and accommodation expense reimbursement to medical residents providing clinical services in the Northeast and Northwest Ontario Health Regions under the Professional Association of Residents of Ontario managed Restricted Registration Program.

For more information on the NORSTAR program, please contact norstar@ontariohealth.ca.