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RhPAP is recruiting for a full-time Grants Associate

For three decades, RhPAP – Alberta’s Rural Health Professions Action Plan has supported the efforts of rural Albertans to maintain an accessible health workforce close…

For three decades, RhPAP – Alberta’s Rural Health Professions Action Plan has supported the efforts of rural Albertans to maintain an accessible health workforce close to home. RhPAP is steadfast in its commitment to ensure rural Alberta communities have a…

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  • Growing the next generation of health professionals in Swan Hills.                                        

    Growing the next generation of health professionals in Swan Hills.                                        

    High school students to receive a hands-on health-care experience in Swan Hills on April 6 Health professionals from the town of Swan...

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

    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

    “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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  • Growing the next generation of health professionals in Beaver County

    Growing the next generation of health professionals in Beaver County

    Health professionals from the Beaver County region will teach high school students from Tofield, Holden, and Viking basic medical skills at an...

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  • “Lets Go Rural!” Post-secondary Experience in St. Paul and Elk Point encourages bilingual nursing students to think rural

    “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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  • Growing the next generation of health professionals in the Brooks Newell region

    Growing the next generation of health professionals in the Brooks Newell region

    Brooks and area high school students to receive a hands-on health-care experience on Nov. 9 Health professionals from the Brooks Newell region...

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  • Let’s Go Rural! Nursing students share secrets to successful transition to post secondary

    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

    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

    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. 

    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

    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

    “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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