Program Description

The SRPC mentorship program is a pilot program that started in 2021 and aims to connect medical students to rural physicians and residents from across the country to allow career exploration, guidance and increased understanding of the scope of rural practice.  We have over 65 mentors ready to help support your rural path.

Goals:

• Connecting students to rural physicians across Canada
• Career exploration and guidance
• Increase understanding of the scope of rural practice
• Provide learning opportunities outside of the formal academic environment
• Contribute to the current and growing need of rural physicians in Canada

Your Role As a Mentor

As a mentor with SRPC, medical students will connect with you through the SRPC office manager. Once you are connected, there will be flexibility in how you set up your mentor-mentee relationships, which can be tailored on an individual basis. This may include answering a few quick questions, setting up a longitudinal mentorship plan, or organizing shadowing experiences (public health guidelines permitting).

Expectations in your role as a mentor may include:

• Sharing experiences of rural practice with mentees for the purpose of career exploration and guidance
• Being honest and open regarding the rewards/challenges to rural medicine
• Forming a plan and setting expectations with your mentee regarding frequency of meetings and meeting platform to be used
• Sharing appropriate resources
• Recognizing that advice given, while extremely valuable, does not substitute for MD program-specific mentorship and supports

* By registering as a mentor for this program, you consent to allowing the SRPC to share the information you have provided to mentees that register for the program.  As a mentor, you may contact the SRPC at any time and have your name removed.

** Mentors must be SRPC members to participate in this program.

Mentee

If you are looking for a Rural Mentor. Visit the SRPC Mentor Program page for all the details.

Please ensure your SRPC membership is up to date. Send your email request to Kristen for a list of mentors and instructions. (kristenk@srpc.ca)

Mentees Must be SRPC members to participate in this program.
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Call for Abstracts - Rural & Remote 2025

Rural & Remote 2025 will take place in Winnipeg, MB, April 24-26, 2025 and the Planning Committee is accepting abstracts.

Our theme this year will be announced in the Fall.

The committee is considering abstracts for two types of presentations related to any aspect of health and healthcare in a rural and remote setting:

• Session Lectures (Breakout sessions)
• Hands-on Workshops (Small group learning)

These sessions should focus on clinical skills and knowledge development related to rural practice. Sessions / Workshops will be 60 minutes in duration and should be interactive and engaging. (The schedule is built in 60-minute time slots, 2-hour sessions are welcome.)

All abstract submissions will undergo peer review by the Rural & Remote Planning Committee.

Deadline: September 30th, 2024

REGISTER YOUR ABSTRACT ONLINE HERE

Call for Abstracts - Mini Rural & Remote 2024

Mini Rural & Remote 2024 will take place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from November 29 to December 1, 2024, and the Planning Committee is accepting abstracts.

The committee is considering abstracts for three types of presentations related to any aspect of health and healthcare in a rural and remote setting:

• Session Lectures (Breakout sessions)
• Hands-on Workshops (Small group learning)
• 20 mins short snappers 

These sessions should focus on clinical skills and knowledge development related to rural practice. 

All abstract submissions will undergo peer review by the Mini Rural & Remote Planning Committee.

Deadline: August 1st, 2024

REGISTER YOUR ABSTRACT ONLINE HERE

One of our R&R presenters, Dr. Yogi Sehgal, received such wonderful feedback that we asked him to present his talk as a webinar. If you missed it in person, he'll deliver the session as part of our new Rural Reach webinar series, allowing you to enjoy it from the comfort of your home or office.

"Entertaining as always. I make sure to attend his talks as they are always great fun, and I learn something new every year!" - Anonymous.

Please note, this is not an accredited event.

Free for SRPC Members / $50 for General Admission

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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Location: Zoom - The link will be in the confirmation email

Can't make it live? No worries! The session will be recorded and shared with registered attendees. 

Event Description:

This talk is resurrected from the ashes of COVID-19 with a new slew of papers that will hopefully pique the audience’s curiosity and inform practice in various aspects of primary care and emergency medicine, hopefully with the right mix for rural practice.

Learning Objectives:

• To review several new studies on unusual topics.
• To help you put the evidence in practice.
• To do it all with a bit of fun interaction.
  

Presenter: Dr. Yogi Sehgal CCFP (EM)

Yogi Sehgal was born and raised in Ottawa.  He completed undergrad and Medical School in Ottawa (way back in 1996) and completed a Rural Family Medicine residency in Northwestern Ontario in 1998 via McMaster’s Family Medicine North program (which is now part of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine).  He started out doing rural medicine locums in various parts of Ontario and BC, settling in Sioux Lookout, in Northwestern Ontario from 2000 to 2010, doing a full-service practice, including Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics, Stress Testing and more.  Relocating to Fredericton in 2010 with his wife, Lynne, who is a nurse practitioner,  he started as a family physician at the Centre de Santé Noreen-Richard, improving access to health care for the francophone population of the Fredericton region, while doing part-time Emergency Medicine.  In 2014, after the birth of his second child, he switched to full time Emergency Medicine and received the Certificate of Added Competence in Emergency Medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2019.  He is now the father of three kids:  Ori, Kéo and Talika, ages 10, 9 and 7.

His special interests include Evidence-Based Medicine, advocacy, music, hockey, cross country skiing and reading among other things.  He also has been doing the physician scheduling for the Emergency Department in Fredericton and Oromocto, so has been acutely aware of and involved in the current physician and nursing shortages.  He looks forward to retiring one day, but in the mean time, would like to have a functional health care system to attend to his family and his community when needed…

SAVE THE DATE FOR R&R 2025

Winnipeg, MB, April 24-26, 2025, at the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg 375 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Are you interested in presenting at the next R&R?
Please send us your abstracts for break-out sessions and hands-on workshops now!Submit an abstract: https://srpc.ca/event-5709385