Advancing innovative
healthcare with
compassion at its core
Healthcare practitioners, leaders, educators, and medical historians:
Join a one-of-a-kind group. With our funding and support, you’ll contribute to a rich body of work and advance inquiry, system change, and your career.
Our Focus Areas
These two areas foster a Canadian healthcare system that's advancing technologically, while staying rooted in compassion and an understanding of our medical history. In each area, we support crucial activities in research education, leadership, and clinical practice.

Bringing compassion into modern, technology-driven care

The history of medicine
Featured news, events, resources
2020 History of Medicine and Healthcare Postdoctoral Fellows and Doctoral Completion Awardees
These six talented scholars will assist Canadians in understanding our rich medical history by studying past practices and philosophies related to human health, healthcare, and disease
AMS announces the release of groundbreaking reports on the future of aging in place
The design of our physical spaces matters more to psycho-social states of well-being than ever previously imagined. This report aims to understand the stock of rental apartment buildings (in Toronto) that qualify as NORCs.
AMS announces 2020 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Small Grants Awardees
These seven remarkable individuals, and their multidisciplinary teams, will help transform healthcare by ensuring that technologies are enabling of healthcare’s compassionate purpose.
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Get funding for your research and projects in:
- Compassion and healthcare technology
- The history of medicine
See what's available through our grants, fellowships, awards, and other project support
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We're proud to share outcomes from a high-profile research community that's improving healthcare. Our resources come from AMS-sponsored researchers and project leads. Find research papers, briefing documents, articles, and videos to help you move your work forward.