Let’s Go Rural! High School EVENTS

Give students the opportunity to explore the wide range of careers available in rural health care through a hands-on, one-day experience.

Applications to host a Let's Go Rural! event are currently closed. Please check back in spring 2027.

Smiling young woman with glasses and gloves drawing blood from a patient's hand in a clinical setting.

Show What’s Possible In Healthcare at Home

We know the best of healthcare is in rural Alberta. Let’s Go Rural! introduces high school students to that.

Hosting an event introduces your students to real-world health care settings so they can know what a future in rural health looks like. Events happen during the school day at a local health facility, school or community space.

The hands-on activities (like injections, drawing blood, and suturing) were helpful to see what I liked, so I could focus my next steps on health professions that fit my interests."

A high school student

In fiscal year 2025/2026

10

Let’s Go Rural! High school events

313

Rural Alberta students attended LGR! High School Skills Events

88%

Students agree events increased their desire to work in rural healthcare

Going Rural Is Right For Your Students

As a community leader, you are promoting local opportunities that support rural workforce development. Here’s what one of our past attendees learned at one of our events.

Silhouettes of cows standing on a grassy hill at sunset under a partly cloudy sky.

What participants will experience

Each event is interactive, engaging, and tailored to the host community. Sessions may include:

  • Stories and Q&A with rural providers and health professionals
  • Hands-on skills stations, such as:
    • Suturing
    • IV starts
    • Airway management
    • Casting and clinical skills
  • Career exploration across a variety of health professions

These experiences help connect classroom learning to discovering the impact and opportunities of rural healthcare.

Two people practicing CPR and defibrillator use on a training mannequin indoors.

Let’s Go Rural! Details

Three people wearing yellow protective gowns, blue face masks, gloves, and clear goggles indoors.

RHPAP manages planning and logistics and provides:

  • Skills station supplies (IV therapy, suturing, injections, casting, airway management, lab services)
  • Venue rental
  • Student transportation (if outside regular bus routes)
  • Lunch and snacks
  • Volunteer appreciation gifts
  • Student swag
  • Insurance coverage

What the community or school provides:

  • Additional skills station supplies (if selecting options beyond those provided by RHPAP)
  • Community-specific swag or keepsakes
  • Support with local coordination and participation

Host a Let’s Go Rural! Event

Applications to host a Let's Go Rural! event are currently closed. Please check back in spring 2027.

Group of people practicing CPR on a medical training mannequin in a classroom setting.