Hospitalist - Kamloops, BC

Hospitalist - Permanent - IHRIH-HOSP-1118

Kamloops

Kamloops is a vibrant city, located in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, with an immediate population of approximately 93,000 and a medical catchment population of approximately 122,000. Set on a vast and rugged landscape, with eight beautiful provincial parks, and more than 100 lakes it is an ideal setting for fishing, kayaking, rafting, hiking and camping. Award winning mountain biking is available at Sun Peaks Resort Bike Park and the Tobiano golf course is ranked as one of Canada’s best.

Winter brings the opportunity for snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, dog sledding, and ice-skating, or just 45 minutes out of town Sun Peaks Four Season Resort offers the best skiing and snowboarding in the area.

Kamloops is the second largest municipality in the Thompson Okanagan region and all of the amenities of a modern metropolitan centre are readily available. A wide range of hotels, spas, restaurants, art galleries, and theatres are conveniently located in Kamloops downtown district. Historically the major industries in Kamloops have been agriculture, forestry and mining, however moving forward agri-food production, high tech manufacturing, non-metallic mineral production and tourism are all playing an important role in the city’s economy.

Drive times to major centers are approximately one hour twenty minutes to Vernon and Armstrong (120 km), two hours to Kelowna (164 km) and three and a half hours to Vancouver (355 km).

 Practice Details:

• Hospitalists play a valuable role on the core service team at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH). While working in close collaboration with the General Internal Medicine Service, the primary responsibility of the Hospitalist is to provide General Medical Care for adult medical and surgical patients at this busy referral center, as many of our patients are geriatric and have multiple co-morbidities. This role may include being the only doctor involved, most responsible physician (MRP), or to provide medical care for Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Trauma and/or other co-managed patients. This is a very diverse and rewarding position as one always works in a highly-valued, positive environment.
  
  With the increased importance of RIH as a medical undergraduate site, this role will also include the opportunity to teach clerks in the Medical Service. This position does not include any Obstetrics/Gynaecology or Pediatrics coverage.
  
  Commonly dealing with patients and families in high stress situations, this job requires superior clinical and communication skills, along with exceptional bedside manner and people management abilities. Legible handwriting is also a must. Our team is very proficient with the matrix of community resources available, discharge planning processes, and the many individuals involved with all aspects of patient care planning.
  
  This professional group has an excellent reputation in the medical community and is noted by their specialist colleagues to function much like their Internist peers. Group dynamics are strong and congenial in nature, and are supported by the culture of ‘I have got your back'. This culture is extended to the RIH Medical Staff who are very cooperative, professional, and focused on quality improvement. Relationships with the Interior Health Administration are also very cooperative and professional.
  
  RIH Hospitalists are also very active in many aspects of the medical community outside of regular responsibilities. This group, originally started in April 2008, has emerged as an important player in the Quality Assurance (QA) Process at RIH. Other initiatives in which Hospitalists are involved include Infection Control, Antibiotic Stewardship, and System Improvement. Hospitalists are mandated to care for orphaned inpatients and work with the community of Family Practitioners around discharge planning and communications.
  
  On-site hours are generally 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. based on an average of 18-22 inpatients per day. Schedule is seven days on, seven day off, and is flexible as necessary. Participation in after-hours call is mandatory, but frequency of call varies by individual physician interest and energy and is negotiable- some take more call than others. Intensity of call workload varies, but is generally quiet in the evenings. It is quite uncommon to come back in to manage unstable patients after hours; most pages can be dealt with by phone. This group benefits from strong relationships with Emergency Department Physicians who are willing to write covering orders on patients admitted to a Hospitalist overnight, as such reviewing and finalization of admission orders and documentation is done in the morning.

Facility Description:

• The Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) is a 230-bed facility that services a catch population of approximately 240,000, located in the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap Health Service Area. As one of two Interior Health tertiary referral hospitals, RIH is a no refusal centre with an Emergency Department that receives over 250 major trauma and 50,000 visits per year. RIH offers high-level, specialty medical care including core physician specialties, 24-hour Emergency and Trauma Services, Ambulatory and Outpatient Clinics, and Diagnostic Services. Specialty services include Ambulatory, Psychiatry, Elderly Mental Health, Clinical Nutrition, and Lung Health. Support services include: a full complement of diagnostic equipment, a Clinical Neurophysiology Lab and Sleep Lab, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and CT scan. This facility also features TPA Stroke, Stroke Research, and Tertiary Neuropsychiatry Programs. RIH is the regional base for the six-person, 24-hour High Acuity Response Team (HART) that is utilized in remote emergency transport situations. Members of the Department of Anesthesia provide Anesthesia services to seven elective operating rooms, labor and delivery, a 24/7 emergency operating room and an additional, contracted, four hour evening emergency room.

Qualifications:

• Eligible for CCFP, ACLS

Call Schedule:

• 1:4 (one in four) Medical On Call Availability Program, Level Two (MOCAP, Level 2)

Compensation:

• Service contract
• Estimated Remuneration: $220,000 for full-time contact.
  
  Additional Information:
  -Above Remuneration does not include MOCAP, Level 2. This payment is on top of the above figure.
  
  -Medical On Call Availability Program, Level Two (MOCAP, Level 2) payment of 452.05 per 24-hour on call availability.
  
  - Overhead Expenses are approximately one per cent.