About RPAPThe Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan (RPAP) is an independent not-for-profit company funded by Alberta Health & Wellness. The RPAP was established in 1991 by the Government of Alberta and provides a provincially-focused comprehensive, integrated and sustained program for the education, recruitment and retention of physicians for rural practice.
Since the RPAP's inception an integrated and comprehensive series of initiatives have been implemented using an "education pipeline" strategy.
RPAP Vision and Mission
The RPAP Vision: "Having the right number of physicians in the right places, offering the right services in Rural Alberta".
Its Mission: "The Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan support Alberta's rural physicians, their families and communities in improving the quality of rural health care by offering comprehensive, integrated initiatives to enhance rural medical services, education, recruitment and retention."
RPAP Video - A Place in the Heart
RPAP Target Groups
- Rural students, medical students and residents
- Currently practicing rural physicians and their families
- Alberta Health Services (AHS) and its partner rural communities
Sample RPAP Initiatives
- Rural placements for UofA/UofC medical students and residents
- Rural hospital tours and shadowing experiences for medical students
- Rural medical school award and rural medical student bursary
- Summer externship program for medical students
- Alberta Rural Family Medicine Network (ARFMN) - the UofA/UofC "rural streams"
- Additional skills training for medical residents
- CME Programming including the provincial videoconference program offered through the UofC/UofA CME offices
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- Virtual Library
- Alberta Physician Link - a provincial physician recruitment web site
- Enrichment program
- Early careerist and award of distinction programs
- Weekend and seniors' rural locum programs - offered through the AMA Physician Locum Services
- Recruitment expense program
- Community recruitment and retention grants
- Rural physician spousal & family programming
- Community recruitment & retention capacity building
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