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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 known to some as the Summer City. 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.

Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) is one of two tertiary hospitals within Interior Health and is the region’s main referral center offering a full range of services with approximately 400 beds and over 78,000 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 University Health Science Center affiliated with UBC’s Southern Medical Program. KGH participates in training Royal College Emergency Medicine Physicians and 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.

Fantastic opportunity now available for a General Internist in beautiful Kelowna! Come join a dedicated team of professionals at KGH and enjoy the rewards of making a difference in your community. You will be part of our talented team of three other dedicated and collegial professionals in the General Internal Medicine division providing the most up to date, comprehensive, quality patient centered care. Enjoy a busy, stimulating inpatient and emergency department consultative practice as well as clinical service to the outpatient Rapid Access Medical Assessment Clinic (RAMAC). Discover the rewards of an academic position in a community setting where you will be teaching on the hospital’s 15-18 bed Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU). Your presence will make an impact and ensure that undergraduate students and residents have effective, stimulating learning opportunities.

Current rotation of:

1:4 weeks Clinical Teaching Unit (7 day coverage)

1:4 weeks Ambulatory Care Unit Rapid Access Medical Assessment Clinic (weekdays only)

1:4 weeks Inpatient & Perioperative Consultative Service (weekdays only)

Also welcoming immediate locum support.

We are excited to add passionate and hardworking experienced candidates or new graduates to our team at KGH. Apply today to live work and play where others only vacation! It's better here!

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Relocation assistance $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*

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