Rural Residency Program

The Rural Alberta North (RAN) Program

The Rural Alberta North units of our Program offer a CaRMS level entry for those residents wishing to learn entirely in the rural and regional setting. These two units are based in Red Deer and Grand Prairie. Since residents relocate to these settings (often permanently), they learn first hand the needs of their community.

The RAN family medicine experience is entirely regional, rural or remote. In the PGY1 year, residents do four weeks of family medicine in their regional home base and eight weeks of rural family medicine. PGY2 residents spend 28 weeks in rural practices, eight of which can be spent in a remote rural area.

Academic Teaching Centres

The department has established Academic Teaching Centers in Northern and Southern Alberta and the Territories. Each of these sites affords an opportunity for extensive training in all aspects of rural family medicine as well as an in-depth exposure of the resident to rural community life.

A third year of training...

The program allows residents who are committed to working in rural Alberta a third year of training during which specialized skills can be honed. The third year objectives are individualized to the needs of the resident and may involve a number of different specialties or sub-specialties. Currently, third year residents in this program are receiving specialized training in: