From clinics to culinary tours to laser tag: How this Ontario city is wooing future doctors [Video]

Doctors 4 Cambridge hosts Rural Ontario Medical Placement, or ROMP, week every year with the goal of recruiting more physicians to the area. CBC K-W’s Cameron Mahler joined in on a day with the medical students to see what that looks like.

Shahzeb Khan had never been to Cambridge, Ont., before.

But after a week of touring private gardens, visiting various entertainment venues and shadowing family doctors and specialists, the University of Ottawa medical student is considering moving to the community after he graduates.

“I definitely have a much better impression of this city than before,” he said, standing outside of a glass-walled conference room in the grey and beige hallways of Langs Community Heath Centre, nearly 500 km away from where he currently lives and studies.

Khan is just one in a group of medical students brought to the city as part of Rural Ontario Medical Placement (ROMP) week.

The week-long program aims to get medical students into …