Victoria, British Columbia’s scenic capital, is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and enviable quality of life, this is an ideal place to pursue your medical career and create the kind of lifestyle only dreamt about. Few areas in the world can match BC’s scope of outdoor activities with Vancouver Island offering everything from skiing and snowboarding to golf and world-class fishing.  With a temperate climate, rich heritage, and vibrant cultural scene, Victoria provides the very best of urban and rural living.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology and Medical Genetics of Island Health, is seeking a full-time hematopathologist with primary practice site in Victoria. There is close practice integration with all hospitals across our Health Authority.
The Hematopathology Laboratory Service in Island Health consists of a network of three major hospital-based hematology and transfusion medicine laboratories and five community hospitals that together serve an island population of more than 750,000. The Hematology and Transfusion Medicine Laboratories at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, BC serve as the regional reference center. The service supports analytical procedures in the areas of wet hematology, cellular hematology, coagulation, hemoglobinopathies, immunology, flow cytometry, immunohematology and the distribution of blood and blood products. The opportunity to participate in sign out of lymph nodes also exists for the appropriate candidate.

The successful physician will be team oriented and join seven other Hematopathologists in providing diagnostic laboratory oversight. They will participate fully in the island-wide routine and special hematology services, transfusion medicine programs, teaching rounds, committee work, administrative tasks and consultation with clinicians in all areas relating to diagnosis, management and therapeutic choices. Occasional travel between sites to provide facility and physician in-services and support is expected.

Vancouver Island is home to the Island Medical Program, a satellite of the University of British Columbia and there will be an opportunity for faculty appointment, academic program delivery and clinical research for the appropriate candidate.

You must be eligible for both Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada certification in Hematopathology and licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. This position is available starting June 15, 2024 subject to availability of the successful candidate.