Welcome to RAN

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Welcome to RAN

• Rural Alberta North
• University of Alberta

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First Year

• General Surgery 8 weeks
• Obstetrics Gynecology 8 weeks
• Pediatrics 8 weeks
• Orthopedic Surgery 6 weeks
• Anesthesia 2 weeks
• Internal Medicine 8 weeks
• Rural Family Medicine 8 weeks
• Regional Family Medicine 4 weeks

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General Surgery

• First to assess new patients
• First assist in OR usually your choice of
  surgeons and surgeries
• Lumps and bumps
• Endoscopy

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Obstetrics Gynecology

• Tons of labour management and deliveries
• Knowledgeable and friendly nurses on LD
• Office gynecology
• OR assist

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Pediatrics

• General pediatrics ward
• NICU
• Newborn checks

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Orthopedic Surgery

• First assist in OR even do some surgeries
• Cast clinic
• One week dermatology in Red Deer

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Anesthesia

• Main focus on skills
• IV starts
• Intubations
• Spinals for LP practice

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Internal Medicine Red Deer

• General internal medicine first call for ER and
  ward consults
• Includes ICU and CCU

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Internal Medicine Grande Prairie

• 4 weeks CCU at Miseracordia, Edmonton
• 4 weeks general internal medicine geriatrics
  with Dr Tim Jordan
• ?4 weeks ICU in second year in Whitehorse

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Rural Family Medicine

• Choose from core sites in
• Beaverlodge
• Bonnyville
• Drayton Valley
• Hinton
• Innisfail
• Camrose

• High Prairie
• Lacombe
• Peace River
• Rimbey
• Three Hills
• Whitecourt

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Rural Family Medicine

• Rural practice style
• Independence and freedom
• Accommodation provided

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Regional Family Medicine

• Assigned to family doctor in GP or RD
• 4 weeks sometime in first 3 months
• Weekly half-day backs after block time
• For continuous exposure to family medicine while
  in specialty rotations

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Second Year

• Emergency 8 weeks
• Psychiatry 4 weeks
• Rural Family Medicine 8 weeks
• Rural Family Medicine 20 weeks
• Electives 12 weeks
• Palliative Care
• Geriatrics

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Emergency
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Psychiatry

• In- and outpatient care
• Grande Prairie options for interdisciplinary
  approach in GP or more typical rotation in
  alternate site

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Rural Family Medicine8 weeks

• Red Deer residents choose to go anywhere
• Grande Prairie residents go to Whitehorse

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Rural Family Medicine20 weeks

• Choose one of the core sites
• Continuity of care, ability to follow patients
  over long period of time
• Option for integrated geriatrics and

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Palliative Care

• Option to do as
• 2 week selective in site of your choice
• Palliative Care Integrated Program
• Two 2-day workshops
• Online discussion board over 8 weeks
• Occational parallel online lecture

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Geriatrics

• Option to complete as
• 4 week selective in site of your choice
• Integrated into 20 week family med block
• Workbook modules
• Participation in care of the elderly
• Multidisciplinary team work

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Vacation

• 20 days 3 flex days per year
• Choose when you are on holidays

Call

• All home call (except IM in RD)
• Paid 50/day (100/day if up at night)

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Academics

• Monthly academic days at home site
• am teleconferenced lectures
• pm liturature review, McMaster modules, SAMPs
• Workshops
• one 2-day at each regional site per year
• evidence based medicine, communication, practice
  management
• Conferences
• two mandatory per year, with RAS

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Academics

• Weekly rounds presented by first years
• Weekly teleconferenced family medicine CME
• Multiple other teleconferenced rounds
• Radiology and ER rounds in RD
• UofA library access online

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Academic Projects

• Brief Evidence-based Assessment of Research
  (BEARs)
• Complete one for each month of family medicine
• Practice Quality Improvement Project (PQI)
• Complete in 20 week rotation
• May present at research day

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• UofA residents
• Paid by Capital Health according to PARA contract
• Current pay 1st year 46 663
• 2nd year 51 741

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RPAP Support

• Laptops with UpToDate subscription
• 400 for PDA or PDA software
• Rural rotation accommodation travel expenses
• Travel expenses, accommodation and meals for any
  mandatory event
• Conference registration fees