Vancouver Coastal Health is committed to ensuring Equity, Diversity and Inclusion among all our medical staff members. We are continuing to lobby for the provision of compensation to non-physician medical staff to ensure diverse representation in Leadership Development. Below please a list of available funding opportunities for your reference. In case if none of these options are applicable to your role, please let us know HERE
- SSC Leadership Training Scholarship
To support physicians in the development of their leadership and quality improvement skills, the Specialist Services Committee (SSC) in partnership with the Shared Care Committee (SCC) who supports family doctors provides scholarship funding of up to $10,000 per physician, available each fiscal year (April 1 - March 31). To read more about the process, click HERE
- Rural Continuing Medical Education (RCME) Community Program
The Rural Continuing Medical Education (RCME) Community Program makes funds available to groups of physicians living and delivering care in Rural Subsidiary Agreement (RSA) communities, to address their collective learning needs. The program aims to improve the capacity of local health care systems to address the needs of community members by giving physicians more control over collective learning activities, reducing the challenges of accessing funds, and improving relationships among health system partners. To learn more about this program, click HERE
- Royal College Regional Professional Development Grant
Professional development grants are for self-learning activities that are prospectively planned by individual Fellows in collaboration with a mentor, supervisor or instructor. These self-learning activities are planned to achieve a defined set of learning objectives and qualify as planned learning projects within Section 2 – Planned Learning (two credits per hour) of the Royal College's Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program.
To learn more about this grant, click HERE
- Royal College Regional Continuing professional development activity grant
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) grants are provided to physician organizations to assist in the development of accredited learning events (excluding self-accredited activities). These learning events must be developed to meet the educational and ethical standards established by the Royal College for accredited activities within Section 1 or Section 3 of the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program. To learn more about this grant, click HERE
- Doctor of BC Continuing Medical Education Fund
The Continuing Medical Education (CME) Fund is an annual benefit that assists non-salaried physicians with educational expenses. The maximum 2022 CME benefit is $2,200. To learn more about this fund, click HERE
- Rural Leadership Development Program by Rural Coordination Centre of BC
The purpose of the Rural Leadership Development Program is to increase opportunities for rural physicians to pursue leadership training and develop the skills and abilities to help bring system improvements that will benefit British Columbia's rural populations. In addition to access to a formalized leadership program, participants will be offered a mentoring opportunity with a rural leader through UBC CPD'S Rural Physician Mentoring Program. To learn more about this program, click HERE
- Rural Physician Research Grant by Rural Coordination Centre of BC
This grant (up to $10,000) aims to empower rural physician researchers – or new aspiring researchers – to pursue innovative rural research and knowledge translation projects contributing to advancing rural health in BC. To learn more about this grant, click HERE
- Rural Global Health Partnership Initiative (RGHPI) by Rural Coordination Centre of BC
This initiative supports projects spearheaded by rural BC physicians or medical trainees and their partners based in underserved communities in BC, other parts of Canada, or internationally. To learn more about this initiative, click HERE
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Grants by College of Family Physicians of Canada
This grant supports academic and community-based family physician members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) in carrying out research projects. To read more about these grants, click HERE
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Midwives
Midwives are able to apply through the Midwives Association of British Columbia (MABC) for funding reimbursement for the pursuit of CME/CPD activities ($500/year). In addition, the MABC also offers $5,000 leadership bursaries to five successful applicants every year. The information regarding MABC programs is available on the member-only MABC site and is distributed to the membership in their monthly memo. To login, click HERE
