Rural Northwest – Terrace
Site Information
Number of Residents: 2 CMG
Community: 15,500
Hospital: Mills Memorial
Distance from Vancouver: 1,351 km
Curriculum Type: Integrated
R2 Elective Time: 16 Weeks
Co-Site Directors Message
Becoming a rural, family practice physician at our Terrace site includes the opportunity for optimum learning experiences in a community-based, longitudinal, and integrated program. At our regional hospital, you will also have wide-spread access to clinical encounters across most specialty disciplines. Our residents enjoy individualized learning experiences from outstanding faculty to ensure their growth as confident and competent physicians. A high percentage of our graduates love the community so much that they stay in Terrace to practice long term.
Program Structure
The northwest site of Terrace consists of a diverse population, including a large Indigenous population. We skillfully serve a core population of greater than twenty thousand people, which expands to nearly eighty thousand people, regionally.
We have built a program that emphasizes continuity and stability for our learners. Most of your time is spent in our community, however, 16-weeks will take you to other parts of the province for your elective and selective rotations. Correspondingly, our enhanced curriculum includes the following courses: ACLS, ATLS, ALARM, NRP, POCUS, and an Enhanced Surgical Skills course. These curriculum components are designed to help you build your foundational skills in rural medicine.
In 2024, we will be entreated to a brand new, state-of-the-art hospital at the center of our teaching and learning program.
Lifestyle
Terrace best serves outdoor enthusiasts and adventurers. We encourage you to breathe the fresh air and enjoy our breathtaking mountain views. The doctors who do best in our setting are adaptable, independent, and reliable. If you are genuinely considering us, please contact us as it is required for your CaRMS application to be seriously considered at this site. Contact us by email with any questions you may have, or feel free to reach out to our residents so that you may gain from their perspective
Wishing you continued success,
Dr. Sasha Langille-Rowe and Dr. Ariane Mundhenk
About
Contact: sasha.langille-rowe@medportal.ca
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Lead Resident Message
Dear residency candidate,
Congratulations on nearing the completion of your undergraduate medical education, and thank you for your interest in the Rural Northwest–Terrace Family Medicine program!
We are a small, collegial program that uses a longitudinal learning model in a regional referral centre to prepare full-scope rural generalist physicians. With only two residents per year, alongside a handful of medical students, you benefit from direct access to preceptors—often 1:1—and the chance to shape your learning through meaningful case selection. Our faculty and leaders know each learner personally and help tailor training to individual career goals. Many graduates, including our co-directors, have chosen to stay in Terrace—a testament to the quality of training and the supportive, welcoming medical community here.
Our “mini-block” structure means rotating through core disciplines such as obstetrics, surgery, ICU, pediatrics, psychiatry, and anesthesia in one-week segments repeated throughout two years. Each resident works with one family medicine preceptor in year one, and another in year two, supporting both continuity of care and diverse perspectives. Opportunities exist to build your own patient panel, and call requirements are generally light—about one weekend per month and one weekday per week.
Terrace, home to 12,000 people, serves as the regional referral centre for ~100,000 across the Pacific Northwest. Located on the Tsimshian territory, we serve many neighbouring Nations, and cultural safety is a core focus of our program. The community is young, family-oriented, and diverse, offering rich clinical experiences.
For those who love the outdoors, Terrace is exceptional: world-class skiing, fishing, mountain biking, kayaking, and hiking are right at your doorstep—and our physicians are often eager to share these adventures.
We are confident our program equips residents for full-scope rural practice anywhere in Canada. Best of luck with CaRMS—we hope you’ll consider joining us in Terrace! ice in any environment in British Columbia or Canada. If you have any questions or require more information, please contact us.
Dr. Allyson Kis
