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  • Event to showcase health careers to Vegreville high school students  

    Event to showcase health careers to Vegreville high school students  

    Local health professionals to instruct students in health skills at April 25 RhPAP-sponsored event. Vegreville high school students will learn first-hand what...

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  • Bulls and billets part of unique Tofield health-care experience

    Bulls and billets part of unique Tofield health-care experience

    Community will be a big part of the upcoming RhPAP Health Skills Weekend on Apr. 13-14, 2019  Billets and bulls will be...

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  • Smoky River Skills weekend encourages students to ‘think rural’

    Smoky River Skills weekend encourages students to ‘think rural’

    Future health providers discovered a unique gem tucked away in northern Alberta: a group of Francophone communities passionate about enhancing rural medicine.  From October 26 to 28, the communities...

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  • Future practitioners gain skills and insight: Rocky Mountain House Skills Weekend

    Future practitioners gain skills and insight: Rocky Mountain House Skills Weekend

    It was a weekend of fun, fright, and fundamentals as 55 healthcare students visited Rocky Mountain House for a specialized skills event October...

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  • Smoky River Region to introduce future health-care professionals to career possibilities in rural Alberta

    Smoky River Region to introduce future health-care professionals to career possibilities in rural Alberta

    Students studying several health-care disciplines are coming to the Smoky River Region this weekend to discover the advantages of living and working...

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  • Today we really got to see what a rural hospital is like’ – Bow Island Skills Day

    Today we really got to see what a rural hospital is like’ – Bow Island Skills Day

    More than 40 nursing and paramedic students from Medicine Hat College experienced the demands of working in a rural hospital on September...

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  • Health-care students rock Rimbey at RhPAP skills event

    Health-care students rock Rimbey at RhPAP skills event

    Over 50 University of Alberta health-care students experienced Rimbey’s first-ever skills weekend on August 25 and 26.  The medical, nursing, and physiotherapy...

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  • ‘It gets that spark going in their eyes’ RhPAP’s Sundre Medical Skills Event

    ‘It gets that spark going in their eyes’ RhPAP’s Sundre Medical Skills Event

    RhPAP’s Sundre Medical Skills Event Nursing Week 2018 was particularly special for about 50 high school students who participated in a skills...

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  • ‘Best decision I ever made’ Flagstaff County Skills Event – The Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan

    ‘Best decision I ever made’ Flagstaff County Skills Event – The Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan

    The Flagstaff County skills day starts here in a town with medieval names.  And there, not far from the corner of Galahad and Guinevere, is Sir Galahad...

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  • Wainwright High School Skills Day             – 6th June 2018

    Wainwright High School Skills Day – 6th June 2018

    For some high school students in Wainwright, a medical career in the military could be a good choice.  After all, a Canadian...

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  • First Ever Pincher Creek High School Skills Day             – 23rd May 2018

    First Ever Pincher Creek High School Skills Day – 23rd May 2018

      Over 30 keen high school students were introduced careers in rural health care during an April 20 skills day at the...

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  • Wainwright Star Edge: Students get hands-on experience at Grow Your Own Health Skills event             – 14th May 2018

    Wainwright Star Edge: Students get hands-on experience at Grow Your Own Health Skills event – 14th May 2018

    The following is an article by Zak McLachland that first appeared in the April 27, 2018 edition of the Wainwright Star EDGE....

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