Neurologist

Practice Details: The Kelowna General Hospital is recruiting within the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology with a focus on Movement Disorders. The health region area includes roughly 2600 people living with Parkinson's disease, in a mixed urban and rural population setting. Our hospital based clinic program is a multidisciplinary clinic that offers speech therapy, physical therapy, social work, and nursing support. Our clinic provides access to advanced therapies for Parkinson disease including infusion therapies and an outreach program for programming of Deep Brain Stimulation devices in partnership with the Vancouver Coastal Health Deep Brain Stimulation nursing team. The successful candidate will participate in the clinical care of movement disorders patients within the hospital-based clinic approximately 4 half days per week. The candidate will be a member of the Kelowna General Hospital Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, and participate in our hospital's neurology acute care on call service. Our Division provides this service and a stroke neurology service; the successful candidate for this award will be a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada but does not require subspecialty expertise in stroke neurology. The expected frequency of acute care on-call coverage is 1:5 or less. Our hospital is a teaching site in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Southern Medical Program, and our Division members teach medical trainees at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The successful candidate is encouraged to apply for a Clinical Faculty Appointment in the University of British Columbia Department of Medicine and to participate in clinical teaching of medical students, residents and other trainees. EVOLVE Award in Parkinson Disease Through a generous grant from the Humphreys Family Foundation and facilitated by the KGH Foundation, this position includes financial support for the successful candidate in the amount of $62400, the equivalent of one day per week at a sessional rate of $150/hr. This award supports the candidate in their first year of practice to contribute time to improving care of people with PD, including practice development work, quality improvement and research project work, relationship building, mentorship activities, and meetings with clinic team members and health authority partners. Further funding beyond the first year of practice is available to support ongoing Parkinson Disease project work including QI projects, clinical research, clinical trials and other endeavors. Qualifications: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) Eligible for licensure with CPSBC Coverage with the Canadian Medical Protective Association is mandatory Doctorate in Medicine Call Schedule: Hours of work: Full Time On call requirements: 1:5-1:7 Compensation: Estimated Gross Income $250,000 - $350,000, plus MOCAP level 1 #J-18808-Ljbffr