Kelowna General Hospital
Location
Kelowna, BC | Canada
Job description
Kelowna
Kelowna is the Okanagan's largest and liveliest population centre and one of Canada's most popular vacation destinations; and this is your opportunity to call Kelowna home. With such a perfect lakeshore community, it is easy to believe that Kelowna is Canada’s playground but could also be your home. Fresh air, mountain landscapes and glistening water year round will entice you to explore this amazing community. If you enjoy outdoor adventures - sailing, house boating, kayaking, windsurfing, fishing, golfing, hiking, mountain biking, skiing - you may never want to leave Kelowna. Downtown Kelowna offers a spectacular landscape of lake, mountains and parks, with all the amenities of a major centre including a wide range of cafés, restaurants and patios to choose from as well as unique shops and boutiques, heritage buildings and modern architecture, art galleries and museums, music and live theatre, and even a symphony and ballet. Come and experience our four seasons playground and see why life is better here. Clinic Details — Kelowna General Hospital: Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) is the main tertiary care hospital within Interior Health and is the region’s main referral center offering a full range of services with approximately over 400 beds and over 84,000 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 teaching centre for the Southern Medical Program affiliated with UBC. KGH is entering its third year of training Royal College Emergency Medicine Physicians and also participates in training 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: Incredible opportunities are available for Gastroenterologists with a sub-specialty in addition to core training. Physicians with a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are encouraged to apply. Our IBD population has heavily expanded with influx to the Okanagan. Kelowna Gastroenterology Associates has a full complement of GI subspecialty services including motility, therapeutics, hepatology, and IBD. We are supported by two colorectal surgeons dedicated to advanced IBD surgery. Our services include two IBD nurses, small bowel ultrasound, a newly established IBD clinic, and IBD clinical trial opportunities with a huge potential. The Kelowna Gastroenterology Associates are a group of 12 Gastroenterologists serving the interior of BC. There is no Internal medicine service or call requirements. As part of the Gastroenterology team you will share an equal share of on-call and endoscopy time. You will be part of a rapidly growing Department of Medicine helping to serve the fastest growing community in the Interior. There are opportunities for involvement in teaching in the UBC Department of Medicine if desired in addition to other creative professional activities. Enjoy a busy, stimulating practice in a place where your presence will be welcomed, and you are sure to make an impact. Join our dedicated and collegial team of professionals at KGH and enjoy the rewards of making a difference in your community. ** 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 orderJob tags
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