Dawson Creek

Wide blue skies and the rolling foothills of the Northern Rockies surround Dawson Creek. The city is also known as the Mile Zero City, as it marks the start of the Alaska Highway, a 2,400 km long highway connecting Alaska and the Yukon to Western Canada and the United States. Dawson Creek has a population of approximately 12,500. It provides primary service to a population of approximately 20,000 and helps serve the larger population of the Peace River Region of 60,000. There are eleven elementary schools, one middle school and one secondary school. The Northern Lights College provides adult education. https://www.northernhealth.ca/our-communities/dawson-creek

Practice Details:

LOCUMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE

Estimated Yearly Remuneration:$400,000+ (after overhead).
Plus Incentives:
$35,798 Annual Bonus (Flat Fee).
$20,000 Signing Bonus.
$9,000 - $15,000 Moving Allowance.
23.10% MSP Premium on all billings.
MOCAP Level 1 for On-Call.
REAP and RCME funding available.

Take over a well-established Solo OB/GYN practice in a community of 13,000, with approximately 350 deliveries per year.

Contact: Daphne.Savoy@northernhealth.ca

Dawson Creek and District Hospital is a full service community hospital that provides service to a catchment area of approximately 26,000. Other local Specialists include Orthopedics, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Radiology, and Psychiatry. The hospital has 31 acute care beds and 15 regional adult psychiatric beds. Services include:

• 24/7 emergency
• HAU
• Medical and surgical in-patient care
• Day surgery
• Orthopedic Surgery
• General surgery
• Medical imaging with CT
• Cancer care
• Respiratory therapy
• Diabetic education
• Primary care
• Lab

A new state-of-the-art hospital is under construction and scheduled to open in Spring 2027.

Site location: Dawson Creek & District Hospital, 11100 13th Street, Dawson Creek BC, V1G 3W8.
Company: Northern Health Authority, located at 230 9900 - 100 Ave. Fort St John BC, V1J 5S7.

Come and enjoy our wide blue skies and northern hospitality!

Dawson Creek is known as "Mile Zero", where the world-famous Alaska Highway begins!
The city has a population of approximately 13,000, provides primary service to a population of 26,000 and helps serve the larger population of the Peace River Region, approximately 70,000.

The city offers shopping, services, restaurants, cafés, a health food store, art gallery, live theatre, and the state-of-the-art Ovintiv Events Centre that hosts major music concerts. Our indoor Farmer's Market is open every Saturday, year-round!

Recreation opportunities include a state-of-the-art indoor Aquatic Centre, indoor walking track, gyms, yoga, Pilates, and dance studios, biking trails, golfing, swimming, boating, kayaking, paddle boarding, fishing, hiking, camping, bird watching, and visiting our numerous parks. In the wintertime, enjoy our indoor curling rink, two indoor skating rinks, 25 kilometres of groomed trails for cross-country (Nordic) skiing, Bear Mountain Ski Hill (downhill skiing and snowboarding), back-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling.

The city has a wide variety of authentic cuisines including Chinese, Japanese, and Italian (to name a few), and also a wide variety of dining atmospheres.

Dawson Creek has eleven elementary schools, one middle school, one secondary school, and one private school (Kindergarten to grade 12). Northern Lights College provides post-secondary education.

We look forward to welcoming you and your family to Northeastern British Columbia!

Qualifications:

• Eligible for Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification (PALS)
• Obstetric experience
• Surgical experience

Call Schedule:

Hours of work: Regular
On call requirements: Regular

Compensation:

Dawson Creek and District Hospital:

Dawson Creek and District Hospital is a full service community hospital that provides service to Dawson Creek and surrounding communities.
It has 31 Acute Care beds and 15 regional adult psychiatric beds. Dawson Creek is the Orthopaedic Trauma and Surgical centre for the Northeast Region of BC. Services include:
• Emergency
• ICU
• Day Surgery
• Respiratory Therapy
• Primary Care
• Acute Care
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Laboratory
Visiting specialists including:
• Urology
• Dermatology
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
Other facilities in Dawson Creek include:
• Dawson Creek Health Unit
• Northview Assisted Living Centre
• Rotary Manor