UCalgary Rural Family Medicine

Yesterday we celebrated these beauties finishing their rural family medicine residency! We couldn’t be more proud or inspired by these group of new doctors! 🩺🎓

Strikes on the lanes and strikes in academics 🎳

Huge congratulations to our R2s who successfully matched to Enhanced Skills training in their chosen +1 programs 🥳🎊🎉We are so proud of all their hard work and wish them all the best as they take an exciting next step in their careers! 👏👏👏

Huge congratulations to our R2s who successfully matched to Enhanced Skills training in their chosen +1 programs 🥳🎊🎉 We are so proud of all their hard work and wish them all the best as they take an exciting next step in their careers! 👏👏👏

Post-academics get together with some of our Lethbridge R1s 😊☺️
Also wishing all prospective applicants the best as CaRMS 2025 season has officially kicked off!
We look forward to meeting y’all!

📢 CaRMS Applicants!
We want to meet you!!
Check the link in our bio for Meet and Greet times and ZOOM links for our Rural family medicine residency programs.
Chat with some current residents, meet program leaders, and get your questions answered. Most importantly, find out why we ❤️ Rural Family Medicine at UCalgary! In the meantime, enjoy the views from Whitehorse, YK - taken by one of our residents during their rural family medicine blocks 🏔️🏔️

At our rural FM Canmore site - Camilla, one of our R2 residents, and a UCLIC student partook in a sim education session hosted by the Southern Alberta Neonatal Transport Service (SANTS)

We ❤️ SIM in the rural program, such a valuable tool for teaching critical care skills for HALO events!

Join us for Virtual Meet and Greets tonight (IMGs) @ 7-8pm MDT and tomorrow (CMGs) @ 6-7pm MDT
The Zoom link can be found on the webpage linked in our bio
~ in the meantime, enjoy the views from Yamnuska, taken by one of our R2s after a day in the OR at our Canmore site ~

We ❤️ resident socials
Come see these friendly faces at our Meet&Greet’s on October 17 + November 14 (zoom info to follow soon)

Snapshots takes by our residents at some of our rural sites 📸 Residents complete their rural family rotations in communities across Southern Alberta (w/ an option to go to Whitehorse, YK in recent years).

All of our sites provide great learning experiences in FM with supportive preceptors, and opportunities to explore special interests like ER, obstetrics, inpatient-hospitalist, anesthesia…or your budding career in extreme mountain sports⛰️ We have Meet & Greets coming up on Oct 17 & Nov 14 where you can learn more abut our program!

Attention CaRMS Hopefuls!
Not from Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Calgary or Alberta for that matter?

Fear not!

Residency can be a time to come home🏠 or explore new horizons🌎

Check out our interactive map 🧭and learn more about Lethbridge and Medicine Hat,
the many Rural Family Medicine Rotation options you have for your R1 and R2 year,
and some of the Amazing Places to support your wellness during training and beyond!

CaRMS 2023 UCalgary Rural FM Info Map - Google My Maps CaRMS 2023 UCalgary Rural FM Info Map