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ROMP Week
Are you a first or second year medical student looking for a unique hands on experience?
Are you missing rural life or do you want to experience it for the first time?
Put down the textbooks; scrub in; go on rounds; learn about a specialty; enjoy the outdoors and get to know a rural community!
ROMP Week is offered to medical students in Years 1 and 2 from Ottawa, Toronto, Queen's and McMaster (year 1 only).
ROMP Week is organized by ROMP in conjunction with select communities throughout south-central Ontario. Pre-clerkship medical students are provided with a "snapshot" of what it is like to practice medicine in the host community. Through a variety of organized clinical rotations, trainees are briefly exposed to several specialties through a one-on-one module with physician preceptors. In addition, hospital and community representatives work hard to coordinate social events that enlighten the student of the extra-curricular opportunities available in that community.
Quick Links for:
 ROMP Week Dates and Communities
Application Deadlines
Application Process
ROMP Week Photo Project
ROMP Week Funding - Learner
ROMP Week Trends
Hosting ROMP Week
ROMP Week Dates and Communities
May 22 - May 25, 2012 University of Ottawa
May 28 - June 1, 2012:Queen's University
- Alliston
- City of Kawartha Lakes
- Campbellford
- Cobourg
- Peterborough
- Uxbridge
June 4 - June 8, 2012: Northern Ontario School of Medicine
- City of Kawartha Lakes
- Orillia
- Uxbridge
- Tobermory/Lion's Head
June 4 - June 8, 2012: University of Toronto
Application Deadlines
ROMP Week applications for students from McMaster University, Northern Ontario School of Medicine and the University of Toronto will only be accepted between January 1st and February 29th, 2012.
ROMP Week applications for students from University of Ottawa will only be accepted between January 2nd and January 13th, 2012.
ROMP Week applications for students from Queen's University will only be accepted between January 16th and January 27th, 2012.
Please Note: Applications submitted before or after the designated window will not be accepted.
Application Process
The Application Process involves completing the standard online Application Form, submitting a Letter of Intent and having a Letter of Good Standing sent from the Program Director. ROMP will process applications in the order by which they are received. Applications will not be considered complete until each document is received by ROMP; incomplete applications will not be processed.
The Letter of Intent should be e-mailed to the ROMP office as a word document and should include the learner's name, school and year of graduation. The purpose of the Letter of Intent is for the learner to describe (in 250 words or less) his or her interest in rural medicine, the communities selected and to explain why the he or she wants to participate in ROMP's ROMP Week.
Please ask that a Letter of Good Standing be faxed to the ROMP office. This is a document that states that the learner is covered by malpractice insurance while away from the academic centre and is in good academic standing. When requesting the letter from the Program Director, please indicate the deadline for applications to ensure that all documents reach our office on time.
ROMP Week Photo Project
Each year, the Rural Ontario Medical Program (ROMP) provides ROMP Week attendees with disposable cameras so that they can capture and submit photos of their experiences in the community.
This year, ROMP would like the ROMP Week participants to take photos that showcase examples of health care in their ROMP Week community. Examples of the style of pictures, subject matter and focus can be found in the following video, "A Day in the Life", created by high school students in Collingwood. Please watch the video below:
ROMP Week Funding for Learners
Learners are eligible to claim their travel costs for one round trip from their academic centre to their ROMP Week Community. In order to receive funding learners must submit:
- RMW Evaluation
- RMW Expense Claim Form
- At least 5 photos of their RMW experience
Evaluation
The ROMP Week Evaluation is completed through survey monkey at the end of ROMP Week. ROMP Staff will check the database routinely to ensure that the evaluations are received and complete.
Expense Claim Form
The expense claim form was provided in your orientation package. You can only claim the kilometers for your round trip, which are paid at $0.40 per kilometer and pre-determined based on ROMP's Distance Calculator.
For questions regarding your expense claim form, please e-mail the Undergraduate Department.
ROMP Week Photos
Each year, ROMP creates a scrapbook of the different ROMP Weeks that were hosted across south central Ontario. In order to create a scrapbook that reflects each week, we are asking that the participants submit their personal photos from the event.
Photos should depict the medical community, rural medicine as it is practiced in the community as well as the social events that are planned throughout the week.
Details on how to submit these photos will be provided shortly.
ROMP Week Trends
The below chart depicts the attendance by school for ROMP Week. Although there are now multiple dates for which a medical student can participate in RMW, the attendance is tracked by overall participation for all dates.
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