Residency in Victoria

The Vancouver Island Internal Medicine Residency Training Program is a distributed site of the program based at UBC in Vancouver. As such it shares some features with Vancouver, but differs in other ways:

• Our aim is to provide core training in Internal Medicine that is equivalent, but not identical, to that provided in the main program
• The majority of the training will be delivered on Vancouver Island, largely at the two teaching hospitals in Victoria (Royal Jubilee Hospital & Victoria General Hospital) but also at other sites on Vancouver Island such as Duncan, Nanaimo, Comox and Campbell River.  There are some mandatory blocks of experience at teaching hospitals in Vancouver (St Paul's Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital) in the first year
• The Vancouver Island IM residents spend their protected academic time over the three years learning medicine in a different format than those in Vancouver. Just like all the new R1s in Vancouver, our R1s start off with two weeks of Boot Camp in Vancouver in July. Next is a series of lectures on all aspects of basic medicine that is videoconferenced every Wednesday afternoon from August to January. In February, our R1s join our R2s and R3s in the IM Academic Full Day series that runs on Thursdays ever two weeks. The academic program is partially resident-driven and covers all aspects of medicine according to a two year repeating schedule which also includes Ultrasound and Simulation teaching. Academic Full Days are protected from clinical responsibilities.

Island Life

Training Sites

The Vancouver Island training sites are:

• Royal Jubilee Hospital (450 bed tertiary center with all major sub-specialities of medicine and surgery)
• BC Cancer Agency is located on site at Royal Jubilee Hospital and will be providing medical oncology rotations
• Victoria General Hospital (330 bed community hospital with some sub-specialty services in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and pediatrics)
• The longitudinal Medicine Clinic at RJH (UMAC Clinic in the Royal Block)
• Community sites in Duncan, Nanaimo, Campbell River and Comox

The Medicine Community on Vancouver Island

The RJH in Victoria is a major regional Cardiac center that provides all aspects of cardiac care including General Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Victoria is a major Cancer care center with the largest Cancer Agency outside Vancouver. Vancouver Island is small enough to provide an intimate learning environment, but large enough to cover all aspects of modern Medicine.

Travelling to Vancouver Island

The Vancouver Island UBC Internal Medicine Residency Training Program office is located in the Coronation Annex/Pavilion Building, 1st Floor, Royal Jubilee Hospital – 1952 Bay Street, Victoria BC

• Royal Jubilee Hospital – see Coronation Annex: https://www.islandhealth.ca/
• Parking map

Program Contacts