Riverside Medical

02/04/2026

Wednesday, February 4th, Dr. Ram is on call in the Emerg for the next 24hrs. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 13:00 until 16:30. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

02/03/2026

Tuesday, February 3rd, The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 16:30. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

02/02/2026

Monday, February 2nd, Dr. Ram is hospitalist and will be looking after the care of the acute care and long term care patients at the hospital. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 16:00 except between 11:30 and 13:00. Extended Hours walk-in will be from 17:00 to 19:00
Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/30/2026

Friday January 30th, Dr. Ram is hospitalist and will be looking after the care of the acute care and long term care patients at the hospital. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 16:00 except between 11:30 and 13:00. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/30/2026

Patients don’t come in neat little packages - and neither should medical education.
For decades, medical education has followed a traditional, block-based model:
➡️ A month of general surgery.
➡️ A month of psychiatry.
➡️ A month of family medicine.

You’d move through each discipline in silos - often never returning to one after your “block” ended.

But here’s the problem: patients don’t show up in blocks.
They show up with multiple conditions, layered experiences, and complex realities.
That’s why longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) were created. Instead of training in isolated blocks, students experience all disciplines, all the way through.

The result?
✔️ Better prepared.
✔️ More balanced.
✔️ More successful.
✔️ And yes - happier.

Every Canadian medical school now has an LIC, and even Harvard and Stanford have adopted this model. At the University of Calgary, I’ve been privileged to direct our program for the past 9 years. It’s not just “another way” to train physicians - it’s one of the most effective strategies we’ve seen to address rural and remote healthcare needs.

Two-thirds of our graduates work in rural or remote communities during their careers - a success rate higher than any other provincial or federal initiative.

Because when medical education reflects the real world, students don’t just become doctors.

They become doctors who stay.

👉 Would you want your doctor trained in blocks - or integrated with real-world complexity?
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Pragmatic about Alberta’s healthcare challenges.
Relentless about fixing what’s broken - to make medicine more honest, human, and sustainable.
Rural Generalist Doctor | Educator | Advocate

01/30/2026

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Patients don’t come in neat little packages - and neither should medical education.
For decades, medical education has followed a traditional, block-based model:
➡️ A month of general surgery.
➡️ A month of psychiatry.
➡️ A month of family medicine.

You’d move through each discipline in silos - often never returning to one after your “block” ended.

But here’s the problem: patients don’t show up in blocks.
They show up with multiple conditions, layered experiences, and complex realities.
That’s why longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) were created. Instead of training in isolated blocks, students experience all disciplines, all the way through.

The result?
✔️ Better prepared.
✔️ More balanced.
✔️ More successful.
✔️ And yes - happier.

Every Canadian medical school now has an LIC, and even Harvard and Stanford have adopted this model. At the University of Calgary, I’ve been privileged to direct our program for the past 9 years. It’s not just “another way” to train physicians - it’s one of the most effective strategies we’ve seen to address rural and remote healthcare needs.

Two-thirds of our graduates work in rural or remote communities during their careers - a success rate higher than any other provincial or federal initiative.

Because when medical education reflects the real world, students don’t just become doctors.

They become doctors who stay.

👉 Would you want your doctor trained in blocks - or integrated with real-world complexity?
–––
Pragmatic about Alberta’s healthcare challenges.
Relentless about fixing what’s broken - to make medicine more honest, human, and sustainable.
Rural Generalist Doctor | Educator | Advocate

01/29/2026

Thursday January 29th, Dr. Ram is hospitalist and will be looking after the care of the acute care and long term care patients at the hospital. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 16:00 except between 11:30 and 13:00. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/28/2026

Wednesday January 28th, Dr. Ram is hospitalist and will be looking after the care of the acute care and long term care patients at the hospital. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 16:00 except between 11:30 and 13:00. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/27/2026

Tuesday January 27th, Dr. Ram is hospitalist and will be looking after the care of the acute care and long term care patients at the hospital. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 13:00 until 16:00. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/26/2026

Monday January 26th Dr. Ram is on call in the Emerg for the next 24hrs. The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 13:00 until 16:30. Extended Hours walk in will be from 17:00 to 19:00
Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/23/2026

Friday January 23rd, The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL booked patients and ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 11:30. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.

01/22/2026

Thursday January 22nd, The available Riverside Medical team is seeing ALL walk-in patients from 9:00 until 11:30. There will be no walk-in this afternoon. Staff will not predict wait times so do not ask.