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Inspiring the Next Generation of Family Doctors
Celebrating 20 Years of Student Shadowing
2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the Student Shadowing Program!
If you previously participated in the Shadowing Program and are now a family doctor, we’d love to hear from you as we mark this anniversary. We’d also love to have you volunteer to host a shadowing student this year! Information about volunteering will be shared with ACFP members via email once the application is available, but if you’d like to make sure you get the application or would like to share your shadowing experience from the past 20 years, please email shadowing@acfp.ca.
About the Program
For 20 years, the Student Shadowing Program (Shadowing Program) has proudly provided newly accepted medical students from the Universities of Alberta and Calgary the opportunity to experience firsthand family medicine practice and all it has to offer.
The ACFP alongside the Alberta Medical Association’s Sections of Family Medicine and Rural Medicine, will be looking for family physician volunteers who are excited to share their enthusiasm and inspire students to make family medicine their specialty of choice.
Placements typically occur in the last two weeks of June and August. Participants can choose their dates and times of availability and they will be matched to a student accordingly.
2025 By the Numbers
Growing every year, the Student Shadowing program has received strong support from our volunteer family physicians and medical students. Student participants shadowed shifts in both urban and rural family medicine practice settings such as walk-in clinics, private practice offices, hospitals, and emergency rooms.
What Our Participants Are Saying
