Internal Medicine

About the role

Ridge Meadows Hospital (RMH) is recruiting three physicians to join its group of nine full and part-time internists/subspecialists. The successful candidates will be subspecialists with GIM ability, or GIM with a subspecialty interest relevant to RMH and/or the community.

Responsibilities

• “Most responsible physician” for the sickest patients
• Provide consultative support to hospitalists and other specialties for less acute patients
• Participate in the hospital’s strong hospitalist program, seeing a high proportion of high-acuity medicine
• Provide inpatient call/consultation, currently provided by two internists during the daytime and one at night, with daytime service in week-long blocks and night call approximately one night in eight
• Expand to three internists during the daytime with the support of the recruitment
• Support the development of a rapid-access clinic, with the clinic’s functioning contingent upon the recruitment of internists
• Provide assistance and consultation to other internists as needed
• Follow up with patients in the community and open a practice for consult services

Requirements

• CPSBC certification
• FRCPC certification in Internal Medicine
• CMPA coverage
• Sufficient clinical experience in all areas of General Medicine
• Proven skills in basic procedural tasks such as lumbar puncture, central line insertion, and chest tubes
• Experience and demonstrated skills in point-of-care ultrasound, leadership, medical administration, and teaching (considered an asset)

Qualifications

• Subspecialist with GIM ability, or GIM with a subspecialty interest relevant to RMH and/or the community
• Strong commitment to teaching residents, fellows, and 4th year medical students
• Ability to follow up with patients in the community and open a practice for consult services

Skills

• Proven skills in basic procedural tasks such as lumbar puncture, central line insertion, and chest tubes
• Experience and demonstrated skills in point-of-care ultrasound
• Leadership skills
• Medical administrative skills
• Teaching skills (considered an asset)

Benefits

• Full-service community medicine
• Excellent support from the “big city” hospitals and staff
• Opportunity to participate in the development of a rapid-access clinic
• Strong hospitalist program providing high-acuity medicine exposure
• Collegial work environment

Pay

Compensation Type: Fee-for-Service

Schedule

Inpatient call/consultation is currently provided by two internists during the daytime and one at night, with daytime service in week-long blocks and night call approximately one night in eight. Appointment will be provisional for 1 year, usually followed by permanent staff appointment.