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Healthcare teams across the province appreciated during Alberta Rural Health Week

Alberta Rural Health Week, held from May 27 to 31, 2024, was a vibrant celebration of the unsung heroes of rural healthcare. Organized by RhPAP,…

Alberta Rural Health Week, held from May 27 to 31, 2024, was a vibrant celebration of the unsung heroes of rural healthcare. Organized by RhPAP, this annual event shone a spotlight on the dedicated healthcare providers and community volunteers who…

Weekly Rural Health News (Oct. 18)

The latest in rural health news from across Alberta: RhPAP News Delburne clinic keeps health care close to home for local residents...
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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

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

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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Keeping health care close to home in Sundre

Nursing students to learn what it’s like to be a health professional in a rural Alberta community Health professionals from the Sundre region will teach about 50 nursing students from Red Deer...
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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

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

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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Crowsnest Pass community comes together to create a high school health mentorship experience

How do you support a rural high school student in their journey to become a rural health-care provider? Well, it takes a...
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Killam welcomes first Alberta-educated physician in decades

Dr. Rami Abu-Zeidan hopes to provide the same personal care and understanding he witnessed his father receiving when he was young. “I...
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“Pop-up” clinic the right prescription for country music fans

Meeting the medical needs of the BVJ For five days in mid-summer, a “mini-hospital” rises to the beat of country music in...
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Calm head during emergency confirms medicine in volunteer’s future

A stint as a medical volunteer at Big Valley Jamboree five years ago was all 20-year-old Allyson Wrubleski needed to know she...
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