Internal Medicine

Health Match BC; Kamloops; On-site; CAD 600,000 - 660,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation funding

Job summary

Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC, seeks a General Cardiologist to join a multidisciplinary team. This role offers hospital-based private practice pathways, with strong support for patient-centered care, research involvement, and teaching of medical students and residents.

The department provides Holter/ECG services, echo lab, and access to clinical trials, with opportunities to contribute to outreach and research initiatives in the region.

Qualifications

• Full-time general cardiologist joining a hospital team.
• Experience in outpatient and inpatient cardiology care.
• Active involvement in clinical research and teaching.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient consultations and heart care at Royal Inland Hospital.
• Overlap with cardiac rehab and heart function clinics.
• Support teaching for medical students and residents.
• Participate in national/international trials.

Skills

Cardiology expertise

Teamwork

Patient-centered care

Tools

Holter monitoring

ECG

Loop recording

Echocardiography (TTE/TEE)

Job description

Role and Facility Information

We are seeking a full time General Cardiologist to join our team at Royal Inland Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a unique niche setting and practice great medicine with lots of support. RIH sees over 1,500 patients in our emergency with cardiac related conditions. Our cardiac rehab clinic and heart function clinic offers hospital based out patient services with an opportunity to join the cardiology private practice. Physician Services provides a full in-patient admitting and consultative service including Holter monitoring, ECGs and loop recording service, heart function clinic, exercise stress testing, nuclear medicine support, cardiac CT and MRI support. Royal Inland Hospital has a full service echo lab performing TTE, TEE, exercise stress echo and dobutamine stress echo. The RACE and Pacemaker clinics operates in the new state of the art Clinical Services Building at RIH which opened in December 2016. The four bed CCU was opened in 2019. The Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Tower opened at RIH in the summer of 2022. The tower includes a new operating room 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.

In the future there is opportunity to develop an outreach service to more remote communities. This is a great opportunity for any cardiologists who are passionate about strong culture of teamwork and patient centered care. The Cardiology group is actively involved in clinical research and are currently involved with 4 national and international trials.

In addition to our ability to continuously develop our skills, we are a training site for medical students and residents going through their programs through UBC’s Southern Medical Program. Both medical students and residents rotate through Royal Inland Hospital as part of core and elective experiences.

We encourage applications for locum interest during the recruitment process.

Terms

Compensation

Compensation Type Fee-for-Service Estimated Remuneration Approx: $600,000+ MOCAP Level 1 Physician Overhead Overhead costs associated with group private practice only and shared by group

Benefits and Incentives

• Relocation Funding Available $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*