ROMP Week is another physician-recruitment tool
Doctors in surgery. Photo by the National Cancer Insititute. Free Use Domain. Upsplash.
By: Cecilia Nasmith, Northumberland 89.7 FM News
Northumberland County
Amid local physician-recruitment efforts is one Northumberland Hills Hospital offered earlier this month – ROMP Week.
This collaboration with the Rural Ontario Medical Program sees five first-year medical students for the opportunity to shadow local family physicians and spend time in multiple hospital departments.
It's truly a team effort for NHH, with Drs. Everdell, Cameron, Cornish, Hasan, Lebbe, Smith and Haunts serving as preceptors for the week. Housing for the students was generously donated by Carly Cunningham and Dr. Mark and Linda Essak.
In addition to the clinical experience, ROMP Week offered fun social activities in the evening. Bruce Bellaire and the Cobourg Dragon Boating Club hosted a dragon boating session, and Dr. Fraser Cameron and his wife Shelagh Staunton threw a welcome barbecue. Participants also had some fun in Port Hope with a show at the Capitol Theatre and a trivia event with community doctors and students at The Thirsty Goose.
NHH extends Dr. Emma Smith a special thank-you for organizing another great ROMP Week and helping to showcase all that this community had to offer for physicians.
