Let's Go Rural! Archives - Rural Health Professions Action Plan

RhPAP is recruiting a new public member for our Board of Directors

Help support rural Alberta communities in their efforts to keep healthcare close to home. The Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) is recruiting a Director…

Help support rural Alberta communities in their efforts to keep healthcare close to home. The Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) is recruiting a Director to serve on the organization’s board commencing July 2025. Working with management, the board of…

Growing the next generation of health professionals in the Athabasca/Boyle area

Health professionals from the Town of Athabasca, Athabasca County, Village of Boyle, and the MD of Opportunity region will teach high school...
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“Let’s Go Rural!” High School Event in Brooks introduces students to rural health-care opportunities

The goal of an RhPAP Let’s Go Rural high school event is to introduce students to career opportunities in rural health care...
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“Lets Go Rural!” Post-secondary Experience in St. Paul and Elk Point encourages bilingual nursing students to think rural

A wagon ride, a French music concert, and a visit to a UFO landing pad: What a time was had by 23...
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Let’s Go Rural! Nursing students share secrets to successful transition to post secondary

The path to becoming a nurse may look different to everyone with the underlying desire often the same—a passion for helping others....
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Students share tips on various ways to get to medical school

Don’t rule out becoming a physician just because you started your undergraduate degree in a subject like agriculture, nursing, or physiotherapy. That’s...
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Rural Alberta students keen to learn how to get into medicine

A recent session aimed at sharing tips on getting into medical school had widespread appeal with rural high school students across the...
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RhPAP “Let’s Go Rural!” Post-secondary Experience convinces RN to start her career in Tofield.

In April 2019, Jenn Voegtlin attended an RhPAP “Let’s Go Rural!” Post-secondary Experience in Tofield as a University of Alberta nursing student. ...
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New nurse finds what she’s looking for in Fairview

Having grown up in Regina, Saskatchewan, Oluwasoore Fasunwon (Soore) always felt that the city of Edmonton was too big and noisy for her. A recent graduate of the University...
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“Une grande aventure” in the Lac La Biche region for post-secondary bilingual students

Plamondon was the perfect stop for 19 bilingual nursing and physiotherapy students looking for a rural francophone health-care experience. Located 200 kilometers northeast of Edmonton, this community of about 350 people just west of Lac...
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Bilingual students go rural for health-care experience in Lac La Biche

U of Alberta students learn what it’s like to be a health provider in a rural northern Alberta community Health providers from...
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“3-C” communities aim to keep health care close to home

March 4 event in Castor to encourage area high school students to become local health providers High school students from east-central Alberta...
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Keeping health care close to home in Manning

High school students from the Manning-area will learn basic health-care skills from local health providers at an upcoming RhPAP “Grow Your Own Health Provider” skills day.
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