Obstetrician/gynecologist - Kamloops, Canada - Interior Health

Interior Health

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Kamloops, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Kamloops
Kamloops is a vibrant city of 100,000, set on a vast landscape of sandstone canyons, grasslands and evergreen timberlands.

Here you can enjoy all the amenities of a big city, while having eight provincial parks at your door step.

Come play a round at Tobiano golf course, spend the day fishing and kayaking or head up to Sun Peaks Four Season Resort for world class mountain biking, skiing and snowboarding.

Blue skies with endless sunshine, one thousand lakes and spectacular landscapes make the Kamloops region the natural place to work and play.

Clinic Details — Royal Inland Hospital:

The Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) is a 273-bed facility that serves as the referral centre for approximately 250,000 people, and is located in the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap Health Service Area.

As one of two Interior Health tertiary referral hospitals, RIH is a no refusal centre with an Emergency Department that receives over 250 major trauma and 72,000 visits per year.

Kamloops offers high-level, specialty medical care including core physician specialties, 24-hour Emergency and Trauma Services, Ambulatory and Outpatient Clinics, and Diagnostic Services Support services including: a full complement of diagnostic equipment, a Clinical Neurophysiology Lab and Sleep Lab, 1.5T MRI, two CT scans, and Echocardiography.

RIH also features, Stroke Thrombolysis, and provincial Tertiary Neuropsychiatry Programs.

RIH is the regional base for the six-person, 24-hour High Acuity Response Team (HART) that is utilized in remote emergency transport situations.

Surgical services include General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and 24/7 Anesthesia coverage.

The Royal Inland Hospital is a unique place to work where Medical Staff culture and collegiality in combination with a collaborative relationship with Hospital Administration maximizes opportunities for job satisfaction and quality of care.

Practice Details:

We are seeking a 7th colleague to join our Kamloops Ob/Gyn group. Our team is collegial, well supported and of mixed seniority.

We are able to practice to the full scope of our specialty; our nursery cares for babies 30 weeks and up.

There are births /year for which we act primarily in a consultative role. We are well supported by a local OB internal medicine service and the Diabetes Education Program. We average 3 surgical days/month each, in additional to outpatient ambulatory procedure time. Our equipment includes what is needed for mínimally invasive laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures.

Our department is proud to support UBC physician training at the MSI level, the FP resident level and the OB/GYN R4 level.

On call expectations are reasonable (1:7).

There are opportunities to share existing office space within the community. Please enquire. Both experienced and new Canadian graduates are invited to apply.

**This job posting is for a position covered by the Provincial Health Officer's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination order and selected applicant(s) must comply with the requirements of the order.

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