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👋🏻 Welcome!
The first step in coming to Canada is to secure a job offer. After that, you’ll get your licensing confirmed, and your employer can help you through the immigration process.
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NEXT ▶︎ Step 1: Get Started
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First, here’s the Island Health main job board. We strongly recommend your first step is totalk to someone from Island Health (major health employer on Vancouver Island) at [email protected]. They are waiting for your email!
Work in modern ORs from Victoria to Nanaimo, with cardiac, obstetrics, plastics, and ENT on site, plus teaching via UBC Island Medical Program. Lifestyle perks include short commutes, year-round outdoor sports, and collegial groups. Pay scales here • more
Join expanding heart programmes in Victoria or Nanaimo, with access to cath lab, device clinics, and ICU backup; mix inpatient consults, outpatient echo/ECG, and teaching if you want it. more
Island practice with dermatopathology support, psoriasis clinic access, and monthly rounds; clinic flexibility and quick access to OR time where needed. more
Work at regional and community EDs from Victoria to Comox, with trauma team roles, full specialty backup, and options for CCFP-EM or FRCPC physicians. more
Check out islanddocs.com for a high-level look at the communities on Vancouver Island. PCNs, UPCCs, and community clinics across the Island, team-based care, good work-life balance, and easy access to specialists for shared care. **more** and email ****[email protected]
Island-wide GI services with endoscopy lists, quality improvement work, and collaborative IM subspecialty support; options to help grow services outside Victoria. more
Hospital-based GIM with telemetry and ICU coverage, strong subspecialty backup, and opportunities to build clinics in areas like rheum, endo, or GI. more
Regional renal programmes in Victoria and Nanaimo with dialysis, home therapies, and transplant collaboration, plus chances to lead service development. more
Medical oncology services on the Island include outpatient infusion clinics, tumour site teams, shared decision-making rounds, and collaboration with BC Cancer specialists. You can develop subspecialty focus areas, teach through UBC Island Medical Program, and work closely with palliative and community supports so care is coordinated and patient-centred. more
Join surgical teams with access to shared OR time, community clinics, and Island-wide collegial ENT leadership to support subspecialty interests. more
Operate in new hospitals with full imaging, arthroplasty and trauma lists, and close collaboration with rehab and community physio partners. more
General paediatrics across Comox, Campbell River, Duncan, and Port Alberni, shared call, newborn care, and teaching through UBC family and paediatrics rotations. more
Island-wide roles in inpatient, outpatient, and subspecialty teams, integrated with community services and QI projects, with flexible FTE options. more
Work with large medical imaging groups covering RJH, VGH, Saanich Peninsula, BC Cancer, and community sites, with CT, MRI, US, IR, and PET/CT exposure. more
Nanaimo and Victoria roles with oncology, endourology, and reconstructive opportunities, plus shared call and strong perioperative support. more
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We have an online community full of other doctors like you, local public health recruiters, volunteers, and more. This is a free grassroots community effort.
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Watch this conversation Tod had with an American internist who moved to Canada a few years ago: