Medical Student Summer Work Experience and Training (SWEAT)
The Summer Work Experience and Training (SWEAT) program is a 10-week paid summer work experience overseen by the Department of Family Medicine and available to first and second year University of Manitoba medical students. Students must make application to the program and if accepted are placed in a rural community in Manitoba to work for 10 weeks during the summer months. The students are provided the opportunity to become involved in comprehensive health care in a rural community and many have their first real opportunity to acquire and practice the clinical skills that they will further develop later in their training. In addition, this placement opportunity provides students with a first hand view of not just work life in a rural community but also life outside of work. The number of students accepted into the program each year is based on available funding and the ability of the program to recruit placement sites that are able to accommodate the student for the summer.
Students accepted into the program are provided with an orientation prior to the program' s start-up. Students are also provided with a travel allowance to facilitate their travel to the placement site and to return to Winnipeg for a mid-program meeting to discuss issues and experiences. The program also includes an accommodation allowance.
For more information contact:
Dr. Susan Hauch
Director, Undergraduate Education
Department of Family Medicine
Phone: (204) 789-3350
Email: shauch@sbgh.mb.ca
Northern Summer Student Work Program
Northern Summer Student Work Program Web Page
Note: The Northern Summer Student Work Program is open exclusively to students enrolled at the University of Manitoba.
The J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit Northern Summer Student Work Program is a program in which students are placed in an Aboriginal or Inuit community to work 10 weeks during the summer months, providing the students with the opportunity to study and become involved in comprehensive health care in a remote/rural northern First Nation community, and to foster an ongoing interest in this aspect of Canadian medicine. The students are expected to become involved in the community as much as possible both medically as well as culturally. The number of students accepted to this program each year is based on funding as well as whether or not a community is able to accommodate a student for the summer.
Orientation to the northern communities is provided for the students in Winnipeg prior to leaving for their respective communities. Accommodations in the communities are typically located at the Nursing Station or Health Centre itself and are arranged by the Northern Medical Unit. Travel is also arranged and paid for through the Northern Medical Unit.
For more information contact:
Manitoba Program
Kathy Risk, Student Program Assistant
Phone: (204) 789-3598
Toll Free: 877-789-3711
Fax: (204) 774-8919
Inuit Health Program
Sandra Toback, Recruitment Coordinator
Tel.: (204) 789-3587
Toll Free: 877 480-1999
Fax: (204) 774-3959