Family physician locum opportunities
There are opportunities for locum physicians, with year-round available spots
and flexible time periods.
Clinic rooms provide space for families
Attractive Facility
- Fully-equipped modern office with spacious clinic rooms, plus individual doctor office rooms, all with windows.
- Peaceful ocean vistas.
- Spend lunchtime down on the beachfront.
New Royal Bay high school near the office
Family Friendly
- Safe location for a family.
- For children, there are nearby walkable/bikeable schools, as well as full gamut of after-school hobbies.
- Unemployment is low, and in typical times is nearly zero, which allows spouses a job of choice.
Kayaking, launched from the office's beach
Autonomy/Wellness
- Do the medical service you wish to do. Innovate your desired efficiencies.
- Your time when not in office is protected, to charge up for a proper work/life balance. If you need days for something, take it.
- Time for comprehensive appointments helps improve outcome, which also increases job satisfaction and keeps stress low.
Out front, at the end of the rainbow
Smart Finance
- BC has strong remuneration packages for locum family physicians. Attractive office overhead split.
- Competitive tax rates in BC.
- Good place for a home that's likely to increase in value, maximizing primary-residence capital gains exemption.
Laptops run the latest version of OSCAR
Helpful EMR
- Office is on OSCAR, which is the most popular EMR in BC.
- No paper charts. All historic paper documents are properly filed in ordered PDFs. Digital faxing.
- Full online digital access to PACS medical images and inpatient records if needed.
The office team
Medical Supports
- Efficient, experienced office managers ready to help.
- All medical specialties right near by in Victoria. Multiple nearby walk-ins to help, and ER/hospital 14 minutes away.
- Experienced GP physician colleagues and registered nurse on the team.
Examining an ear in the office
Practice Efficiency
- Fully managed and up-to-date patient panels.
- Patients arrive easily and early to enjoy the oceanside, and can park right outside the office, so appointments flow on time.
- All patients are known, with past histories completed.
The 'Welcome To Metchosin' sign
Pleasant Community
- Similar to Woodview, California, in this purposely-rural-on-the-edge-of-a-technology-hub community, people are happy since they are all living here by choice.
- The urban community around Metchosin is the fastest growing in BC, since Southern Vancouver Island is a desirable place to live. The local school district is the fastest growing in BC.
- Metchosin is a community where one can forge good relationships with kind neighbours, but still have access to the amenities of a nearby city.
Oranges growing in the office's climate
Prime Location
- International airport is 37 minutes away with direct flights to most destinations. Victoria airport to Vancouver airport is 11 minutes. Helicopter/floatplane flights from Victoria harbour to Vancouver harbour is 30 minutes.
- The local Mediterranean climate is the most favourable in Canada, as per Environment Canada's lowest 'misery index' of total yearly amount of cloud, sleet, snow etc. Year-round training homebase of many of the Canada Olympic teams.