USask educates professionals at distributed sites
In various distributed education locations across Saskatchewan, USask is educating the professionals that the province needs. As a result of these programs, students can stay in their home communities without uprooting their family, avoid being overwhelmed in an urban setting and minimize incurring debt due to having to live away from the community.
The College of Education and Indian Teacher Education Program has current cohorts in White Bear First Nation, Moosomin First Nation, Mistawasis First Nation, Beardy’s & Okemasis First Nation, Cumberland House Cree Nation, Beauval and Pelican Narrows.
Through strategic partnerships, USask’s College of Nursing utilizes distributed learning technology so that nursing students in Île-à-la-Crosse, La Ronge, Lloydminster, Muenster, North Battleford, Swift Current, Weyburn, and Yorkton can learn where they live. The college believes that the pursuit of post-secondary education should not be disadvantaged by geography and thus uses innovative technology to deliver its undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program in these locations. Students also have the opportunity to study nursing at USask’s Prince Albert campus.
USask’s College of Medicine, with its Saskatoon and Regina campuses, is a provincial resource in attitude and practice. USask acknowledges its role in supporting quality health care for all peoples of the province to meet the needs of urban, rural, and remote populations. As such, the college provides opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate medical learners to train at sites across Saskatchewan, including Estevan, Meadow Lake, Melfort, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, North Battleford, Prince Albert, La Ronge and others. This allows learners to enhance their knowledge and skills and to explore unique educational opportunities in a diversity of communities.