Advantages of Working in the Department of Medicine

• Our alternative funding plan (AFP). We offer competitive salary plus predictable clinical income that facilitates all academic activities (patient care, research and education). Also the expense and difficulties of billing government are gone, replaced by our AFP.
• The AFP contract give regular increases in income similar to fee-for-service increases.
• There are abundant opportunities for academic development both with clinical and basic science colleagues who are co-located in the school of medicine.
• For teachers, we have an educator-scholar stream that allows full development of your potential as an educator. Our undergraduate clinical skills program gives many opportunities for career development. We have an endowed chair in clinical skills.
• Divisional structure allows focus on subspecialty or general internal medicine work.
• Collegial management, oriented to career development of individual faculty members.
• Excellent administrative support for a move to our area and setting up a practice at one of the teaching hospitals.
• Plans are well underway to restructure our clinical facilities to build a large ambulatory centre for patient care and education of our students.
• Hospital staff and management with a strong vision of how and academic medical centre should develop and innovate in these times of fiscal restraint.
• Medical Grand Rounds and many other reasons!