Creston

The quiet community of Creston is located south of Kootenay Lake, sheltered between the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains. These breathtaking, snow-capped mountain peaks combined with fields of grain, and deep clear lakes, afford those who call the Creston Valley home ample opportunities to enjoy outdoor adventures. Wetlands provide the perfect habitat for birds and bird watchers alike, and the abundant farms and orchards support a farm to table lifestyle creating a welcoming community of grounded, hardworking people. Creston takes pride in its many local artisans skilled in areas such as blacksmithing, pottery, quilting, and painting, hosting annual events to display their creations.

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Located in the Southeastern corner of BC in the unceded traditional territory of the Yaqan Nukiy within the Ktunaxa Nations, the stunning Creston Valley offers a unique climate and incomparable scenery along with agricultural diversity, an award winning farmer's market, an internationally recognized apiary, a major brewery, VQA wineries, and exceptional artists and artisans. Creston is a great place to raise a family, start a hobby farm or step out of the rat race to enjoy a better work life balance! Located only 11 kilometers from the Idaho border, the region offers unlimited recreational resources: clear waters of Kootenay Lake at your doorstep, accessible skiing in several locations nearby, state-of-the-art 4-season recreation centre, several active ball diamonds, and a recently opened destination skate board park! The area also boasts a challenging and scenic golf course, a multitude of hiking and biking opportunities as well as a 17,000 acre RAMSAR Wildlife Management area home to rare and endangered species.

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The region has multiple family practice clinics which offer a variety of in clinic services as well as opportunities to create a schedule that suits your needs and those of your family. The collegiality between the clinics is inspiring as clinics support the Creston Valley Hospital (CVH) a 20-bed Acute Care Hospital with an active 24-hour Emergency Department and 2 long term care homes in the Town. All Creston GP's provide routine clinical care within the practices of their medical clinic, and provide approximately 1:11 on call emergency services. GP Anesthetists also provide GP Anesthesia both in a scheduled, urgent care, and on call basis in rotation with other GP/A's. Acute patient services at CVH include GP Surgery/Anesthesia/Low Risk Obstetrics, inpatient services, and Dialysis. Local Diagnostics are provided through laboratory services, imaging, and ultrasound. Support departments at the hospital include pharmacy, dietary, physiotherapy and occupational therapy as well as other ancillary services. The Hospital also hosts visiting specialists to limit patient travel.

Details!
New candidate would be joining the OR physician team of two experienced FP-A’s (who are also FP-OSS), another FP-OSS and one FP-ESS.

Creston has 3 elective anesthesia days per week of OR. Local GP-ESS, itinerant General Surgeons, Dentals for the elective slates. Cesarean Section (elective and emergency). FP-A is a 1 in 4 MOCAP call schedule per month. When on call, available to ER for critical care cases and procedural sedations, available to Maternity for obstetric epidurals, emergency C-Sections and neonatal resuscitation/CPAP.

FP-A is also a family physician based out of a clinic with rostered patients. Associated in patient and long term care duties for these patients (usually shared as part of a group). As part of the Creston physician group, who all do ER shifts, the FP-A’s take part in doing ER shifts to at least an ER physician half time equivalent. FP-A is welcome to join the obstetric team for prenatal clinic and intrapartum care. But this is not expected.

Creston has a young and dedicated team of OR nurses. We are part of the RSON (Rural Surgical and Obstetric network) program through RCCBC, thus coaching and maintenance of clinical volume and skills are easily available. We have a proven continuous quality initiative. We have a good working relationship with the IHA management team and are actively looking at ways to expand and grow our surgical services.

In association with the UBC Medical School, two of our clinics support students and residents, completing their rural component of their training and the students speak highly of their experiences with us.

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If this interests you, please reach out, we would love to hear from you and help plan your next opportunity!

Qualifications:

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (ACLS)
• Advanced Trauma Life Support Certification (ATLS)
• Certificant of College of Family Physicians of Canada (CCFP)
• Emergency experience
• Current CMPA license CMPA mandatory PALS desired

Call Schedule:

Hours of work: No Details
On call requirements: ER approximately 1 in 11

Compensation:

Creston Valley Hospital:

CVH is a 20-bed Acute Care Hospital with 24-hour on call physician emergency services. Acute patient services include Surgery, Medicine, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and Dialysis. Diagnostics are provided through imaging, ultrasound and lab. Support services are provided through pharmacy, dietary, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Visiting specialists provide General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Ears/Nose/Throat, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Radiology, Urology and Gastroenterology consultations to the Creston population.   The hospital operates a General Practitioner Surgical Day Program that includes Day Procedures, Endoscopy, Colonoscopy and C-Sections.​