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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…

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  • Childhood dream leads to seven decades of medicine and counting… 

    Childhood dream leads to seven decades of medicine and counting… 

    He might just be the most interesting man in rural medicine.   Dr. George Stewart-Hunter has raced cars, killed the world’s most dangerous...

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  • For this rural physician, outstanding patient care begins with a long run in the morning

    For this rural physician, outstanding patient care begins with a long run in the morning

    At 6:30 a.m. on a weekday, chances are you’ll find Dr. Deon Erasmus out on a gravel road near the town of...

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  • Heart and stroke clinic eases anxiety for rural residents 

    Heart and stroke clinic eases anxiety for rural residents 

    Christine Holubec-Jackson’s 49th birthday wasn’t quite the celebration she expected. Days earlier, the Wetaskiwin resident was diagnosed with bleeding on the top of her...

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  • Keeping health care close to home in Drayton Valley

    Keeping health care close to home in Drayton Valley

    Local high school students to learn what it’s like to be a health professional in rural Alberta Local health professionals will teach...

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  • Exceptional care leads Mayerthorpe nursing team to an RhPAP Rhapsody Health-care Heroes Award

    Exceptional care leads Mayerthorpe nursing team to an RhPAP Rhapsody Health-care Heroes Award

    Perhaps nobody appreciates the nurses at the Mayerthorpe Healthcare Centre more than the physicians who practise there. While doing their rounds each...

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  • Community support key to rural health-care success

    Community support key to rural health-care success

    In rural health care, as with most things, resources are limited and offering services outside of those considered core can require extra...

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  • Lethbridge hosts ultrasound training for future rural docs

    Lethbridge hosts ultrasound training for future rural docs

    Rural family medicine residents from the University of Calgary’s Cummings School of Medicine (U of C CSM) gathered on a snowy Saturday in Lethbridge recently to learn how using point-of-care ultrasound can make a difference in an emergency situation. 

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  • Delburne clinic keeps health care close to home for local residents

    Delburne clinic keeps health care close to home for local residents

    After waiting nearly a century, Delburne residents can once again visit a physician in their own community  Earlier this year, Dr. Muti Kauchali became the first doctor to practise in Delburne in 90...

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  • Mobile therapy bus targets play to help rural students 

    Mobile therapy bus targets play to help rural students 

    Imagine as a child having the ability to jump on a bus at school — not for basic transport, but to learn...

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  • RhPAP Medical School Award recipients primed for rural practice

    RhPAP Medical School Award recipients primed for rural practice

    RhPAP is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s Rural Medical Student Bursary: Kelly Anderson and Curtis Woolf (University of Alberta) and Karly Nikkel...

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  • Community works together to support new moms and caregivers

    Community works together to support new moms and caregivers

    Being a physician doesn’t mean you are immune to life’s health challenges.

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  • Keeping health care close to home in Drumheller 

    Keeping health care close to home in Drumheller 

    Media Release  September 23, 2019  Keeping health care close to home in Drumheller  Post-secondary students learn what it’s like to be a...

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