Monday marks the begriming of ROMP week at Orillia’s Soldiers Memorial Hospital.
That is the Rural Ontario Medical Program where 1st and 2nd year medical students spent time at the local hospital to experience what it is like to practice medicine at a rural facility.
Chair of the Orillia and Area Physician Recruitment and Retention Committee, Tony Katarynych says this visit will give the five students a snap shot of rural medicine.
He says each student will spend several half day sessions shadowing a local doctor as they do their rounds in the various hospital departments.
Katarynych says the rest of the time will be spent exploring the community as they get to know Orillia better.
He says the fact Soldiers Memorial Hospital is a teaching hospital is a plus because some of the medical students that intern here sometimes return to Orillia as family physicians.
