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| June 12, 2007 | Back to List | Print this Page  | | School Outreach in Northern Alberta | | |
February 10 saw The Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan (RPAP) involvement in a centralized career conference in Fort McMurray. Rebekah Seidel, RPAP Rural Physician Consultant North, along with Malgorzata Ejsmont and Ian Sutanto, two medical students who originate from Fort McMurray, facilitated an interactive rural medicine presentation at three different high school sessions during the day. Questions on rural medicine were posed to students with RPAP prizes offered to students who had the correct answers. In total, there were 32 students in attendance, including 3 First Nations students, plus 7 parents. Participating schools included Father Patrick Mercredi High School, Composite High School, Westwood Community High School and La Loche Community School. Evaluations rated the RPAP presentation highly, particularly the participatory nature of the presentation and the presence of medical students to field questions.
The Battle River school division career fair was held on February 21. RPAP’s Rebekah Seidel, two medical students (Brandon Ball from a rural school in the division and Julie Kromm from a rural school in Red Deer area) along with East Central Health’s Tammy Syrnyk led four sessions focused specifically on medicine. The sessions saw 88 high school student participants from the following schools - Bashaw, Bawlf, Central High Sedgewick Public, Daysland, Forestburg, Hay Lakes, Ryley, Tofield, Camrose Composite High School, New Norway, and Our Lady of Mount Pleasant. The interactive nature of the presentations led to lots of discussion and again prizes were handed out to students who correctly answered the medicine focused questions posed to them. Evaluations rated the presentations highly and saw a number of students leave seriously considering medicine as one of their career options.
| | For more information, please contact: | | Rhonda Crooks | | RPAP Communications Consultant | | Rural Physician Action Plan | | 403.208.5402 | | Rhonda.Crooks@rpap.ab.ca | | www.rpap.ab.ca |
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