$100,000 Free!
Mar 13th 2013, 10:10 pm
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$100,000 Free!
Only catch is, you need to be a GP willing to work in rural(ish) BC for a minimum of 3 years.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle9731514/
The B.C. Medical Association and the provincial government are teaming up to offer a big carrot to doctors to get them to practice in several rural areas.
Family doctors and specialists who commit to three years in one of 17 designated communities will get a special payment of $100,000.
The communities are Bella Coola, Burns Lake, Chetwynd, Clearwater, Cranbrook, Galiano Island, Hazelton, Kitimat, Nakusp, Pemberton, Port Alberni, Port Hardy, Princeton, Quesnel, Terrace, Tofino and Tumbler Ridge.
Family doctors and specialists who commit to three years in one of 17 designated communities will get a special payment of $100,000.
The communities are Bella Coola, Burns Lake, Chetwynd, Clearwater, Cranbrook, Galiano Island, Hazelton, Kitimat, Nakusp, Pemberton, Port Alberni, Port Hardy, Princeton, Quesnel, Terrace, Tofino and Tumbler Ridge.
Mar 13th 2013, 10:13 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
Only catch is, you need to be a GP willing to work in rural(ish) BC for a minimum of 3 years.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle9731514/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle9731514/
Mar 13th 2013, 11:08 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
Only catch is, you need to be a GP willing to work in rural(ish) BC for a minimum of 3 years.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle9731514/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle9731514/
Mar 13th 2013, 11:54 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
Hopefully not - those communities need doctors now, not in several years. Tofino's hardly a bad place to have to commit to 3 years.
Mar 14th 2013, 6:39 am
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Re: $100,000 Free!
Somewhat confusingly, we live near one of the towns listed above and actually had a choice of GPs when we arrived, unlike when we lived in Edmonton and had to wait 2 years to get one? 
Mar 14th 2013, 7:47 am
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Re: $100,000 Free!
I think they should be due me 100k for having to work in Nova Scotia 
Mar 14th 2013, 7:51 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
Makes me think of Northern Exposure 
great tv!
great tv!
Mar 14th 2013, 7:56 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
anything for dentists?
Mar 14th 2013, 11:12 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
They're always trying to lure people out into the rural areas to improve the quality of life there. Another program I heard about was that you can also get loans of up to $150,000 if you start a business in a rural community (from community futures bc).
Mar 14th 2013, 11:16 pm
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Re: $100,000 Free!
I know which I would be wanting.......
