The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is hosting 20 first-year medical students this week, but the event is not designed for physician recruitment.
Hospital official Fannie Vavoulis says Discovery Week gets medical students out of the lecture hall and working with local doctors.
"Their first year of med school is spent in a classroom-setting studying text books in lecture halls, so this week they are getting an opportunity to see what it is like to practice medicine in a rural community," she says. "We are a teaching centre in conjunction with the Schulich School of Medicine so it is our way of exposing the student to hospital-setting, community-setting, rural-setting."
Although no Discovery Week students who participated at the health alliance in the past came to practice locally, Vavoulis points out a number have participated in third-year elective programs.