Prince George's Hospital Center Program Family Medicine Residency
Site Director Bulletin
Welcome to the Prince George site!
Hi, welcome to the Prince George site. We are passionate near rural medicine with a northern context. If you are interested in the northward, and in full service rural practise, please read on…
Our site is for yous if:
- You are interested in full-service (urban or rural) Family Practice which includes role, hospital care, ER, and/or obstetrics.
- You are interested in rural medicine
- You are interested in rural locums
- Y'all want to develop a solid foundation of acute care and ER Family Practice skills to use for an R3 ER or GPA program (we have 12 weeks of ER and iv weeks of ICU and 12 weeks of R2 elective time)
- You want a rigorous, diverse, and relevant clinical experience with lots of rural influence.
This site is probably not for you if:
- You want to work in an urban-based Family unit Practice office simply setting
- You lot want to sub-specialize into a narrow telescopic of urban Family Practise
- You desire to be a hospitalist
- You enjoy traffic and unaffordable housing
And then what makes us unique?
Lots!
- We have a strong focus on northern and rural medicine. This involves heavy on call responsibleness and lots of training in emergency and acute care medicine to have you ready to run that rural ER and hospital once y'all are done.
- Nosotros believe in resident autonomy. Whenever possible, we attempt and tailor the rotations and experiences to see the needs of our residents. Autonomy = wellness!
- Nosotros offer optional rural experiences during some of our cadre R1 and R2 rotations. This will accept advantage of smaller communities with more than one-on-one time with specialists and Family unit Physicians in an enthusiastic atmosphere. This will be counterbalanced with the book and experience of the preceptors in Prince George, one of UBC'due south most established residency sites.
- We are currently offer mentorship in rural commission piece of work and policy development for those interested in interest with provincial rural networks.
- Nosotros are incorporating frequent SIM lab sessions and ultrasound educational activity (COVID restrictions depending) throughout the residency.
- We are too piloting the utilize of SIM sessions in our local site orientation. This is existence driven by our electric current residents.
Who am I?
I am James Card, the site manager for the Prince George and the Northern Rural Family unit Practise Programs. I am a UBC Northern Medical Plan graduate and a graduate of the Prince George Family Practice Residency Plan. I am currently a rural physician with my clinical practice in Valemount. I am passionate about total-service family practice and Rural medicine. Information technology is my goal to create a programme that excels in transitioning residents into competent and confident physicians for Northern and Rural British Columbia and Canada.
Who are we?
The Prince George site is 1 of the largest and most established of the UBC Family Do residency sites. We accept been grooming residents in Prince George since 1995.
Our infirmary is unique for a community this size as most inpatients are still managed by their family dr.. We exercise not have a hospitalist model here. The focus is on total-service Family Practice. Numerous community-based Family unit Physicians also work in emergency, including many of our graduates.
Historically we are known for extensive easily-on training from enthusiastic preceptors. There is also aplenty opportunity for teaching as Prince George is abode to the Northern Medical Program.
I'll be honest, our site has too been known for hard work. The call here is heavy, with diverse experiences. We are paying shut attention to the volume and diversity of clinical experiences to ensure that our residents are appropriately prepared for independent practice. Nosotros produce stiff residents (…and strong physicians)! I take heard this from numerous other rural Physicians and I take seen this personally as a rural preceptor, working with residents from all over the province.
The community:
At that place's a frequent saying in Prince George, "I came hither on a 2-year programme". As a transplant from the Vancouver area myself, my 2-year program is at present going on 20. At that place are many reasons for this. This is truly a multicultural and diverse customs of friendly people and ample opportunities.
- Medical customs – most of the family physicians here are graduates of our plan, there is a reason they stick around!
- Housing – affordable. Many residents purchase. Enough said.
- Amenities – the customs is just big enough for a Costco, 2 indoor swimming pools and multiple other recreational facilities
- Opportunity – many opportunities for spouses, children and family including a community college and a university.
- The outdoors – truly amazing. I could proceed for hours, please enquire. If you are into it, chances are you lot can practise it here. This includes things y'all would not expect. Sailing? I had a gunkhole here for 6 years. Diving? Yes, that too. Actually, anything!
- Student loan forgiveness! – yes, y'all get that too as a resident here.
Equally is probably obvious past now, I believe Prince George and our plan has much to offering the Resident who is interested in easily on hard work with the goal of condign an fantabulous, independent, full service, fulfilled Family Doc who can practice competently anywhere.
If you are interested, delight accomplish out to either myself or our residents.
Lead Residents – pg.fm.leads@gmail.com
R1 Reps – pg.fm.reps@gmail.com
I hope to chat with y'all soon!
Dr. James Carte Doctor, CCFP
James.Menu@unbc.ca
Pb Resident Bulletin
You may exist wondering what resident life will be similar, and how to cull the right programme. Nosotros think that choosing the right path depends as much on the people equally the place.
Prince George is a welcoming, family-friendly and affordable community which will make the transition to residency that much more manageable. It is a small urban center that feels more than like a modest town. It is like shooting fish in a barrel to get around and accomplish quite a lot in any given day–you could go off piece of work, get to Costco, get snowshoeing or mountain biking, then head home. There is very little traffic, and there are seldom lines at the stores, making each commute and errand more manageable.
The medical community is well connected, and you get to know your staff as well as your colleagues very well throughout the residency. Although, with near 30 residents betwixt the ii years, Prince George is i of the larger UBC sites, the resident group here is quite tightly knit, often socializing during "call-free Fridays" which allow us to accept a guaranteed night each week to spend time together and socialize with each other. Historically, nosotros accept had two retreats every year–one is with just the residents, and one is in Jasper with the hospital physicians. Nevertheless, with the electric current pandemic, these evets, similar then many others in all of our lives, have been modified or put on hold. However, with that being said, nosotros are currently looking forrard to a return to our in-person resident retreats, starting with our retreat this Winter at Powder King Mount Resort.
We accept a local resident resiliency committee that holds events for united states of america, and arranges optional wellness check-ins. The warm and welcoming medical community is one of the highlights of resident life in Prince George. In fact, the customs advocated for its own medical school, leading to the development of the Northern Medical Program, which highlights its passion for medical education. This represents itself when you see that your patients are beholden to accept y'all preparation in their customs. There is a low learner to staff ratio so it allows the staff to become to know you well, allowing them to work with yous on your strengths and weaknesses. You will get to know your family practice office well and will be able to develop a patient panel of your ain as you will be with them throughout the 2-year program.
In your free time, Prince George is considered the Majuscule of the North; offering picturesque wilderness and outdoor activities, including hiking, angling, golfing and camping. Lakes and rivers grow with opportunities to kayak, canoe, fish or swim. There is an extensive network of trails for running and mountain biking. Winter activities include a range from cross country skiing, hockey, snowshoeing, downhill skiing, sledding and water ice skating. The surrounding area affords like shooting fish in a barrel access to the mountains for camping, backpacking or backcountry skiing. Prince George is home to the Cougars (a WHL hockey team), a symphony and an excellent semi-professional theater. There are two local breweries, both offering great venues to socialize, and many restaurants and chains to satisfy virtually every culinary peckish. The local parks also accommodate for swell impromptu fasten ball sessions or rounds of frisbee golf game.
We hope y'all will consider Prince George and come live the Northern BC experience!
Sincerely,
Samya Vellani and Paul Sutcliffe
Samya.vellani@alumni.ubc.ca
p.sutcliffe@alumni.ubc.ca
Number of Residents: six CMG, 4 IMG, and 5 Northern Rural
Location:Prince George, BC
Customs: 72,000
Hospital: The University Hospital of Northern British Columbia
Distance from Vancouver: 752 km
Curriculum Blazon:Cake
R2 Constituent Time: 12 Weeks
Phone: 250-565-2549
Contact:Director – Dr. James Card / Coordinator – Roghieh Soufinia
Lead Residents: Dr. Jessica Burian and Dr. Bron Finkelstein
Overview
Prince George is the largest Northern center for healthcare, inclusive of surrounding regions, servicing approximately 320,000 people. The University Infirmary of Northern BC (UHNBC) is Northern BC's largest state-of-the-art healthcare facility. This plan incorporates the best practices of rural and remote medical education from around the earth, providing outstanding exposure to direct intendance to patients. Through its collaboration with northern communities and Northern Health, the program utilizes various acute care facilities, long-term care facilities, community health centers and public health unit to ensure residents in Prince George are set up to accept on whatever challenge their hereafter in family practice easily them!
The PGY-1 year is structured in block rotations that includes a 2-month rotation in the resident's home family exercise function. This is complemented by weekly office half days that permit for the development of a "resident practice" and a reminder of how each rotation is relevant to our time to come as family physicians. In the PGY-2 year, residents have 12 weeks of elective fourth dimension to accommodate their own learning objectives. There is a 5-month family medicine cake with integrated longitudinal exposure to palliative care and geriatrics. At the stop of this rotation, there is the opportunity to practise a "trial locum" under the supervision of attending family medicine staff. There is an viii-week emergency rotation with excellent education and the opportunity for the resident to "run the department" within their abilities and challenges residents that are up for it. Farther critical care training is provided in a airtight ICU where the PGY-2 works with the intensivist every bit the sole learner; there is ample opportunity bedside teaching to help fix the family medicine resident and ample opportunity for procedures.
The distribution of the commencement and second twelvemonth residents throughout the hospital makes virtually no learner conflict for clinical opportunities and procedures. The presence of clinical clerks both in their third-yr rotations and visiting 4th-yr electives also provides ample opportunity to act as a resident teacher and supervise clinical opportunities and procedures. There are senior residents visiting from Vancouver in internal medicine with CTU, and frequently in full general surgery, peds or OB/GYN, whose presence typically benefits our learning as they human action as mentors and offering valuable bedside clinical teaching. Our resident group is very close-knit and often tin can exist found spending our leisure time together.
Within Northern health, there are over two dozen acute-care facilities, 14 long-term care facilities, public health units, and offices providing specialist services. In Prince George, at that place is a 219-bed tertiary care hospital, with an ICU and a level two NICU. We don't have a hospitalist model and most of the family physicians within the customs take an active function in caring for their patients admitted to hospital. There is a brand new BC Cancer Agency heart which opened in Jan 2013. The Central Interior Native Health Middle provides master care to Get-go Nations peoples, outreach services to patients with complex issues and those who live close to or on the street. Other agencies include the Child Development Heart, the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Clinic and innumerable traveling specialty clinics. As residents, we have access to this wide range of facilities that provide abundant learning opportunities where the resident finds him or herself to exist the sole learner. Northern Wellness is known for strong primary wellness care system. People experience seamless and coordinated service. The 'Primary Intendance Home' is the foundation for multidisciplinary health care and helps people navigate across services.
Since in that location are fewer learners, people who choose the Prince George Site should exist relatively independent and motivated to seek out the many learning opportunities available. As the family physicians in the Northward take a broader telescopic of practice, the residents have greater opportunity to gain clinical experience, procedural skills, teaching, leadership, community involvement and patient advancement. If you are willing to commit, appoint in the program and accept accuse of your own residency training, you will complete the two years with a solid foundation and readiness for independent do.
Program Highlights
The Academy Hospital of Northern British Columbia provides referral services to much of Northern BC and includes an emergency department, ICU, ambulatory intendance facilities and in-patient belfry with all major specialties, except cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery and dermatology.
- Our Purpose is to foster diversity and clinical excellence to produce competent, professional person, full service family physicians. Our Aspiration is to be a connected, vibrant community of adjustable family physicians and trainees, committed to an fantabulous learning environment, high quality principal care and customs health and well-being.
- Family physicians are involved in the care of well-nigh hospitalized patients, practice all the principal intendance obstetrics, and staff the emergency section.
- Teaching practices located either in a dispensary on the grounds of the regional infirmary with 17 Family Physicians, or v community practices with 9 Family Physicians, providing full service.
- Primary focus is grooming for piece of work in communities outside major metropolitan areas with emphasis on procedural skills, primary care and management of acutely ill or injured patients, peculiarly when access to a specialist's care may be limited.
- Optional enhanced rural exposure in R2
- Call is decorated, occurs approximately 1:4, with Call free Fridays – a common night off, creating the opportunity for all residents to get together socially.
- Accent on a counterbalanced life with a goal being to afford residents the opportunity to hone personal qualities and skills in a work environment that is challenging but also collegial, supportive and fun
Sample Rotation
| Cake one | Block two | Block 3 | Block 4 | Block v | Block half-dozen | Block 7 | Block 8 | Cake 9 | Block 10 | Block 11 | Block 12 | Block 13 | |
| PGY1 | ER | Peds | Peds/addictions | FM | FM | IM | IM | Surg | Native Health | Ortho | OB | Ob/Gyn | Psyc |
| PGY2 | ER | ER | Rural | Rural | Elec | FM | FM | FM | Elec | ICU | FM | FM | Elec |
Current PGY1 Rural options:
Quesnel – General Surgery, ER
Williams Lake – General Surgery, ER, Ob/Gyn, Peds
…and nosotros are working on more!
To go an understanding of what life could exist like exterior the learning hours, delight refer to the Chiefs message above and delight don't hesitate to contact u.s.a. with any further questions.
Here is a highlight of R1 rotations in Prince George (modified if you are choosing rural options) to get an idea of what your first twelvemonth would look similar:
General Surgery: a 4-week rotation. Potential of being the senior for 1-3 medical students, organizing rounds, organizing medical students, OR assisting or intendance of ward patients. Opportunity to attend scope clinics, lumps and bumps clinics and wound care clinics etc. Call i in 4 in hospital overnight.
ER: a four-week rotation, paired with an ER physician for your shift. iv hours in acute intendance, 4 hours in pocket-sized, or 8-hr shifts in acute care. Tons of easily-on experience including suturing, intubations, etc. and lots of independence.
Pediatrics: 3 weeks on CTU and 3 weeks on ambulatory. Phone call is i:4, with only 1:7 during ambulatory. Potential of beingness senior for medical students, and lots of 1:ane fourth dimension with staff. Opportunity to participate in the care of infants in a level III NICU.
Orthopedics: 4 weeks working 1:1 with orthopedic surgeons doing consults in the CAST dispensary, profitable in trauma OR and routine replacements, also every bit Ten-ray rounds. 1:four call.
Obstetrics/Gynecology: 6 weeks of 1:2 telephone call for obstetrics gaining hands-on feel doing deliveries and assessments with family physicians and in complicated cases, profitable in the C-sections with obstetricians. Many residents take 10 or more supervised solo deliveries. 2 weeks of Gynecology gaining skills in part 1:ane with the Gynecologists.
Psychiatry: four weeks of a combination of outpatient and inpatient medicine.
Internal Medicine: seven weeks on CTU and 1 week of ambulatory with no call for ambulatory. ane:iv call for CTU. The most learning is done by residents on this rotation as you piece of work closely in a large squad led by an attending doc, clinical teaching associates, pharmacy, and senior internal medicine resident during the 24-hour interval. Opportunities to do skills similar ultrasound and weekly ultrasound teaching, every bit well every bit thoracentesis/paracentesis. During the night, yous gain independence in seeing consults, with backup from your staff.
Family unit Medicine: two four-week blocks where you go to spend time in your family exercise function.
Addictions: a unique two-week rotation working in adult and youth Detox, opioid agonist therapy clinics, as well as obtaining your prescription privileges for suboxone and methadone.
Central Interior Native Wellness: This unique rotation focuses on Ethnic health and is a mixture of inpatient and outpatient intendance. I weekend of telephone call. Loved by all residents; it involves getting to know how to work in an interdisciplinary team and employ customs resource.
Source: https://carms.familymed.ubc.ca/training-sites/prince-george/
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