Job Description
The UBC Family Practice Residency Program invites applications for the position of Faculty Development Site Faculty at the Kelowna Rural and Regional training site.
The UBC Family Practice Residency Program is the largest, most distributed post graduate Family Medicine training program in Canada with more than 400 residents distributed over 23 different training sites.
The Kelowna site is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the syilx/Okanagan peoples. We acknowledge with gratitude their wisdom and stewardship of these lands, and are grateful for opportunities to work together in a good way towards healing, learning and reconciliation.
Kelowna is a “green” site that passionately emphasizes the importance of planetary health and educating residents on how climate change relates to family practice, patient medical conditions, and our personal and professional choices.
The Kelowna Rural residency site offers a unique experience, combining a year in Kelowna with invaluable learning from specialists and family doctors, followed by a second year immersed in two different rural locations across British Columbia. This blend of urban and rural medicine equips residents for diverse careers in family medicine.
Established in 2020, Kelowna Regional is a “newer site” built on a long tradition of excellence in training family physicians and is ideal for those who want to experience both urban and rural medicine and embody a “work hard, play hard” mindset.
The total resident cohort of the Kelowna sites is 28.
The Faculty Development lead will work with the Site Director and the central Faculty Development Portfolio Director to provide resources, professional development, and support to preceptors. They will work with other site faculty, residents, site directors, portfolio directors, clinical faculty, and the administrative team.
Applicants must have experience in clinical education and medical leadership, a passion for teaching, and a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and interact with empathy and understanding across a range of perspectives and backgrounds. Applicants must have their Certification in the College of Family Physicians of Canada and be in good standing with the CFPC.
The position is 0.175 FTE which is equivalent to 0.875 days per week.
The appointment is for a term of 1 year and renewable upon review
Application deadline: May 2, 2025
Start date: June 1, 2025
Please submit letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to: Dr. Lizanne Venter, Site Director Lizanne.venter@ubc.ca and Kelowna.fp@ubc.ca
Education Deliverables
The incumbent is responsible for Faculty Development within the training site. Together with the Site Director, Portfolio Directors, and other Site Faculty, the Site Faculty for Faculty Development form a “matrix” leadership model for the Residency Program.
Responsibilities
- Overall professional development of Family Practice preceptors in the areas of resident teaching and education
- Assisting the Faculty Development Portfolio Director in providing program wide workshops for clinical faculty
- Developing faculty development resources and delivers content through various modalities
- Ensuring preceptors have access to resources to meet the educational objectives in teaching
- Acting as a resource for the local faculty
- Attending and participating in the Site Resident Training Committee meetings and other relevant site functions as required.
- Participating in program-wide and departmental initiatives of the UBC Department of Family Practice
- Participating in resident selection and recruitment activities
- To work closely with other site faculty to ensure that the faculty development activities are structured to provide support for the areas of evaluation, curriculum and research
- To develop strategies to retain and increase the number of preceptors
- Participates in resident selection
Reporting
The incumbent will report to the Site Director
Qualifications
- Membership and certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada
- Eligible for licensure in B.C.
- Eligible for Clinical Faculty Appointment through UBC
- Educational and administrative experience is required
- Demonstrated ability in teaching and working with residents
About the University of British Columbia and the UBC Faculty of Medicine
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC’s entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world.
Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone.
Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 11,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.
The Faculty – comprised of approximately 2,200 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 9,000 clinical faculty members – is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, three schools, and 24 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.