Kamloops:
Kamloops is a vibrant city of 100,000, set on a vast and rugged landscape of sandstone canyons, grasslands and evergreen timberlands. Famous for its hospitality and known as the Tournament Capital of Canada, Kamloops offers all the amenities of a big city; first class accommodations and dining, a lively downtown district, modern shops, full range of businesses and wonderful recreation facilities. Kamloops also takes pride in its vibrant arts community and its First Nations culture, represented in various cultural sites throughout the city, and in theatre and music festivals and events held annually.

With eight beautiful provincial parks and more than 100 lakes it is an ideal setting for fishing, kayaking, rafting, hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking and camping. Or play at round at Tobiano golf course, ranked as one of Canada’s best! In the winter, fun and adventure awaits you with the opportunity for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, dog sledding, and ice-skating, or just an easy 45 minute drive away, Sun Peaks Four Season Resort offers the best skiing and snowboarding in the area.

Blue skies, endless sunshine, spectacular landscapes and friendly, welcoming people make Kamloops the natural place to call home and experience life to the fullest.


Royal Inland Hospital:
The Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) is a UBC teaching hospital and one of two tertiary hospitals in Interior Health. Our facility serves a catchment of approximately 250,000 and has 273 beds. It 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.

Kamloops offers high-level, specialty medical care including Cardiology, Critical Care, Dermatology, Neurology, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Nephrology, Respirology, and Rheumatology. Diagnostics offered include a Clinical Neurophysiology Lab and Sleep Lab, MRI, two CT scans, and Echocardiography. RIH is the regional base for the High Acuity Response Team (HART) that transports critically ill patients throughout the region. Surgical services include General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Otolaryngology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Tower opened at RIH in the summer of 2022. The tower includes new operating rooms and surgical services suite, more beds, respiratory therapy services, mental-health and substance-use inpatient unit, obstetrics services, labour and delivery and a rooftop helipad.

A new Pediatric Unit opened at RIH in July 2024 which includes 9 individual rooms, including an isolation room, procedure and Outpatient Clinic rooms and amenities which are designed to enhance family centered care.

The Teck Emergency Department renovation and expansion is underway in a new era for RIH, and will take place in phases, Phase 1 is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2024. Phase 2 renovations are scheduled to be complete in 2025. When finished, the department will offer expanded care and enhanced patient outcomes in one of the busiest emergency/trauma centres in British Columbia’s interior region.


Practice Details:
The General Internal Medicine division provides extensive inpatient and outpatient services. There is an inpatient ward for internal medicine MRP patients with collaborative care from a multidisciplinary team. General internists also provide care to the Step Down Unit/high acuity unit for more complex and acute patients requiring higher level monitoring. An inpatient internal medicine consultative service also provides support to other specialties. General internists provide 4-5 call per month with an interesting and varied patient population. General internists are well supported with separate call schedules for ICU, Cardiology, Nephrology and Gastroenterology. There are also extensive hospital based clinics including a rapid access internal medicine clinic, a perioperative medicine service, diabetes clinic, exercise stress tests, supervision of myocardial perfusion imaging, a vascular disease risk factor modification clinic, and interpretation of ECGs. A shared private outpatient clinic also provides community support for patients requiring longer term follow up.

Royal Inland Hospital provides an excellent working environment with a highly collegial medical/surgical and allied health staff. There is a regular rotation of GIM fellows/residents from UBC as well as family practice residents and medical students that rotate through Royal Inland Hospital providing clinical service and opportunities for teaching. There are regular complex care rounds, journal club, and other CME opportunities available. Holidays are negotiable, typically 10-14 weeks per year depending on the services ability to accommodate.

We are excited to add passionate and hardworking experienced candidates or new graduates to our team at RIH.

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Qualifications:
Current College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC) License (Full); Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) (Mandatory); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) (Mandatory)