Welcome Class of 2011. Rural Medicine Interest Group (RMIG) students representatives are: 

Lindsay Connolly, Pascaline DeCaigny, Amber Jorgensen, Robert Pomerleau, and Jonathan Somerville. Class of 2011 have a class name of Kakapo.

The RPAP Medical Students' Initiative Coordinator is Rosemary Burness (Rosemary.Burness@rpap.ab.ca) She is always available by email to help you set up a RPAP sponsored rural activity.

Some of our upcoming events:

1. Weekend Shadowing Opportunities in rural centres are always available! Contact RPAP by email at shadowing@rpap.ab.ca or see the Shadowing Programs section of this site for details.
2. MDCN 440 - This 40 hour elective is available in a rural location.  Contact UofC Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives for help with finding a rural location and a preceptor.
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1. SRPC Rural and Remote Medicine Conference - This conference, which showcases rural and remote medicine and allows an opportunity for rural physicians to meet and discuss important issues, was held in Toronto, April 22-24, 2010. The ever popular medical students/residents social evening partly sponsored by RPAP occurred Friday, 23 April 2010 @ 17:00 hours.
2. RPAP Clinical Skills Day - This year, the RPAP Clinical Skills Day was held in Sundre, AB on 27 February 2010.
3. AMSCAR (Annual Medical Students Conference and Retreat) was held in Banff on 15-17 January 2010.  RPAP and other exhibitors  offered a number of skill workshops - IV starts, IUD insertion ,etc..