Register now for ROMP's 8th Annual Spring Workshop!
April 22nd - 24th, 2008
If you have not received a registration flyer, but would like to attend this year's workshop, please e-mail us @ romp@romponline.com
Rural Medicine Week (RMW)
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!
Rural Medicine Week (RMW) is offered to medical students in Years 1 and 2 (McMaster Year 1 only) from Ottawa, Toronto, Queen's and McMaster.
To apply for Rural Medicine Week, please submit an online application (apply now) and submit a letter of intent to the ROMP office. Applications for Rural Medicine Week 2008, will not be accepted until January 1st, 2008!
The deadline for applying for 2008 Rural Medicine Week is February 29th, 2008.
Each student takes part in approximately nine 1/2 day rotations throughout the week.
Half days are always scheduled in family medicine.
Rotations may be scheduled in obstetrics, anaesthesia, paediatrics, emergency medicine, orthopaedics, psychiatry, general surgery, gastroenterology/endoscopy, radiology, urology, and allergy medicine.
Outdoor activities such as boating, climbing, hiking, mountain biking
Visits to local industries such as a diary farm or chocolate factory
Dinner with community leaders
Rural Medicine Week Dates and Communities
May 20 - 23rd: Queen's University
Cobourg
Port Colborne
Lindsay
June 2 - 6: Ottawa University, University of Toronto, NOSM
Orillia
Brantford
Campbellford
Fort Erie
Simcoe
Orangeville
Midland
Georgina
Niagara Falls
July 14 - 18: McMaster University
Peterborough
Rural Medicine 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 and learn more about several specialties on a one-on-one basis with physicians. In addition, hospital and community representatives work hard to coordinate events so that the student becomes aware of the extra-curricular opportunities available.
