FAMILY PRACTICE | LOW-RISK OBSTETRICS OPPORTUNITY!!
Are you passionate about rural medicine and outdoor adventure? Do you want to spend more time in the great outdoors and less time commuting? If your answer is yes, this Family Practitioner/Obstetrics opportunity in Terrace might be for you!
We are a diverse group of Family Practitioners in Terrace who love our community and are looking for a family doctor who wants to provide intrapartum obstetrical care to join us. We are a teaching site for UBC Medicine (Family Practice Residency and Integrated Clinical Clerkship) and have three Primary Care clinics to choose from. Our specialist colleagues provide outstanding, timely, empathic, and educational support. The OBGYNs in Terrace are exceptional and deeply committed to supporting rural GP obstetrics care.
Our obstetrical group is a close-knit bunch providing prenatal, on-call labour and delivery, and postpartum care to Terrace and surrounding communities including the First Nations communities of Kitsumkalum, Kiteslas, and Nisga'a and towns of Kitimat and Hazelton.
On-call is scheduled as approximately 1 in 4, 24 hour shifts providing intrapartum and obstetrical triage care on the labour floor and maternity ward, with 72 hours over the weekend from Friday to Monday mornings. Approximately 350 births/year.
We run a prenatal clinic one half day per week and post natal clinics for unattached dyads throughout the week. These clinics are run by an awesome MOA. There’s a very skilled lactation consultant in the community who is a veteran NICU respiratory therapist and who loves teaching. Our labour floor nursing team is stellar - kind, smart, passionate, respectful, skilled. Community support includes public health nursing, mental health care, and midwifery.
If you join our community, there are countless opportunities to provide full scope care. Emergency medicine (with an exciting group of family docs and CCFP(EM) docs, journal clubs, SIM), community Primary Care, Women's Wellness including medical terminations of pregnancy, an Opioid Agonist Therapy Clinic, and Hospital Inpatient Care on a busy Medical Surgical ward (where, again, the nursing staff is stellar!). Other opportunities include OR surgical assisting, working in a FFS minor procedures clinic, and engaging in the Terrace Physician Initiative Group Society to support physicians to make change in the health care system and improve their work environment and patient care. TPIGS is part of Facility Engagement (FE), resulting from a master agreement between Doctors of BC and the Provincial Government, the first initiative of its kind in Canada.
Terrace is home to Mills Memorial Hospital, a fully accredited 44 bed, acute care facility, with an average of 24,700 ER visits per year. The state of the art, 560 million dollar New Mills Memorial Hospital will be completed by the end of 2024 affording expanded logistics, space and integrated trauma and elective service delivery potential.
Current available programs and services include:
10 Bed Psychiatric Unit; Cancer Care Unit; Breast Cancer Centre; Nuclear Medicine Department; Renal Dialysis Unit; Daycare Surgery; Bone Marrow Biopsy Program; Bronchoscopy; Labour and Delivery Unit; Well Womens' Clinic; Pediatric Comprehensive Services Centre; Minor Surgery Program; 3 Surgical Suites; Endoscopy Suite; 5 Bed ICU; Visiting Specialist Centre; MRI/CT/Echocardiography/DI Biopsy; Stereotactic Core Breast Biopsy
What is truly unique about practicing in Terrace is the exceptional specialist support including:
General Surgery; Internal Medicine; GP Anesthesiology; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Urology; Radiology; Psychiatry; Ophthalmology; GP Oncology, GP Obstetrics (C-section); Pediatrics; Plastic surgery including hand and tendon repair; Pathology; BCCH visiting Pediatrics subspecialties.
Visiting Neurology, ENT, Rheumatology, BCCH Pediatrics, Electrophysiology, Dermatology, Nephrology, and Internal Medicine
Terrace is a vibrant, entrepreneurial and friendly community with a medical catchment area of 31,000 and a total catchment area of 86,000, clean air, affordable life and housing. Historically a forestry industry, Terrace has grown into a regional service town with government and educational social services as the biggest employers as well as strong presence of construction, trades, transportation and growth in manufacturing and tourism. There are three secondary and six elementary schools, one long-distance education and one French emersion, a Northwest Community College campus and a University of British Columbia campus.
Surround yourself by the stunning coastal mountain range and lush ancient rainforest just minutes away from the Pacific Ocean. Enjoy the mild winters, back and cross country skiing, heli-skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, indoor and outdoor skating, ice-fishing and an evening soak in the local hot springs. In the summer, go golfing, hiking, mountain biking, camping, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking and swimming in the pristine lakes and of course, the world-class Salmon fishing. Keep an eye out for a rare white Kermode or “spirit” bear. In the evening, relax in one of the many pubs, restaurants or the local brewery, or go dancing and see local musicians perform, or maybe attend one of the art, musical or comedian shows. Go local and shop at the Northwest biggest farmer’s market. Feeling creative? Then, audition and act at the local theatre. Whatever your interests are, you will have access to numerous activities and amenities within minutes from your home – reclaim your work-life balance and join us!
If rewarding professional opportunities and outstanding lifestyle are your priority, please get in touch!
LOCUM opportunities are available throughout the recruitment process and beyond.
This posting is covered by the Provincial Health Officer's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination orders and selected applicant(s) must comply.
Compensation Type
Fee-for-Service
Estimated Remuneration
$450,000 ++
Physician Overhead
Primary Care office only - n/a for OBS/prenatal clinic/post-partum clinic/women's wellness clinic
May be eligible for additional remuneration in accordance with the Rural Subsidiary Agreement (RSA) including:
Retention Premium
18.48%
Retention Flat Fee
$28,045
Relocation Funding Available
$9,000 - 15,000
Recruitment Incentive
$20,000
Other Benefits/Incentives
Relocation funding: $9,000 if relocating within BC; $12,000 if relocating from another Canadian province; $15,000 if relocating from outside of Canada.
