RhPAP provides free accommodations to health professions students learning in rural Alberta
Channel: RhPAP
Date: 2022-09-20

RhPAP wants to make the rural experience as positive as possible for health professions students in rural Alberta. We work with the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary to provide short term places to stay in 120 different accommodations in 40 rural Alberta communities.

Many are used by medical students for two weeks to up to a year while they complete clerkships and residencies, like Jamie Hilland and Alexander Miles who used RhPAP accommodations in Lac La Biche while for their eight week clerkship.

Others are used by health professions students like Kelsey Clark, a 4th year nursing student from Medicine Hat College, or Emily West, a 3rd year midwifery student from Mount Royal University in Calgary.

Emily and Kelsey recently shared accommodations in Taber while doing their practicums there. It was an opportunity for both to learn more about each other's discipline.

If you are a health profession student and want to learn more about RhPAP Accommodations Programs, please contact the administrator at your post secondary institution or go to rhpap.ca/accommodations.