Neurology

Role and Facility Information

Kelowna

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Clinic Details — Kelowna General Hospital

Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) is one of two tertiary hospitals within Interior Health and is the region’s main referral center offering a full range of services with approximately 400 beds and over 78,000 ED visits yearly. Adjacent to Kelowna General is the brand new Interior Heart & Surgical Centre (IHSC) which opened in 2015 and is BC’s only cardiac critical care centre outside of Victoria and the Lower Mainland. IHSC is Kelowna General Hospital’s principal surgical site and features; 9 specialized Operating Rooms created for Thoracic, Urology, Neurosurgery, Vascular, Plastics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ears Nose and Throat, Orthopedics, General and Trauma surgeries with 2 ORs dedicated to Cardiac. Our state of the art Centennial Building also recently opened and boasts a total of 360,000 square feet, an expanded emergency and ambulatory care department, larger operating rooms and a rooftop helipad. KGH is also a University Health Science Center affiliated with UBC’s Southern Medical Program. KGH participates in training Royal College Emergency Medicine Physicians and Family Physicians. With the state-of-the-art Interior Heart & Surgical Centre and new medical inpatient units in the Centennial Building, dedicated psychiatry units for youth and adults, a modern maternity ward, enhanced laboratory and clinical departments in the new Dr. Walter Anderson Building, and an academic campus that serves as a satellite for the University of British Columbia Medical School, KGH has become one of BC’s leading healthcare centres.

Practice Details

The Kelowna General Hospital is recruiting within the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology with a focus on Movement Disorders.

The health region area includes roughly 2600 people living with Parkinson's disease, in a mixed urban and rural population setting. Our hospital based clinic program is a multidisciplinary clinic that offers speech therapy, physical therapy, social work, and nursing support. Our clinic provides access to advanced therapies for Parkinson disease including infusion therapies and an outreach program for programming of Deep Brain Stimulation devices in partnership with the Vancouver Coastal Health Deep Brain Stimulation nursing team.

The successful candidate will participate in the clinical care of movement disorders patients within the hospital-based clinic approximately 4 half days per week.

The candidate will be a member of the Kelowna General Hospital Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, and participate in our hospital's neurology acute care on call service. Our Division provides this service and a stroke neurology service; the successful candidate for this award will be a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada but does not require subspecialty expertise in stroke neurology. The expected frequency of acute care on-call coverage is 1:5 or less.

Our hospital is a teaching site in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Southern Medical Program, and our Division members teach medical trainees at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The successful candidate is encouraged to apply for a Clinical Faculty Appointment in the University of British Columbia Department of Medicine and to participate in clinical teaching of medical students, residents and other trainees.

EVOLVE Award in Parkinson Disease

Through a generous grant from the Humphreys Family Foundation and facilitated by the KGH Foundation, this position includes financial support for the successful candidate in the amount of $62400, the equivalent of one day per week at a sessional rate of $150/hr. This award supports the candidate in their first year of practice to contribute time to improving care of people with PD, including practice development work, quality improvement and research project work, relationship building, mentorship activities, and meetings with clinic team members and health authority partners.

Further funding beyond the first year of practice is available to support ongoing Parkinson Disease project work including QI projects, clinical research, clinical trials and other endeavors.

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Terms

Compensation

Compensation Type Fee-for-Service Estimated Remuneration 250,000 - $350,000, plus MOCAP level 1

Benefits and Incentives

Other Benefits/Incentives Relocation assistance $9,000 - $15,000 based on move location (with eligible receipts) *Incentives are subject to change and current rates are confirmed at time of offer*

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