Coaching and Mentoring Program (CAMP)

UBC Rural CPD’s Coaching and Mentoring Program (CAMP) fosters peer connections in rural practitioner networks to improve your practice, increase your confidence, and connect you to rural colleagues.

Peer support can take many forms, from an occasional phone call with a coach/mentor to a site visit to shadow a specialist as they perform procedures you don’t often see in your community. CAMP connects you with personalized, just-in-time support in whatever form works best for you.

Coach/mentors provide support in a wide variety of areas including transitions in practice, emergency medicine, palliative care, Indigenous patient care, personal wellness and more.

Types of coaching/mentoring activities

Coaching/mentoring sessions could involve a range of activities, which may include but are not limited to:

Cost

None! CAMP is funded by the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues (JSC) and is free for all participants.

Sign up

Coachees/mentees & coaches/mentors sign up here: https://bit.ly/CAMP-CPD

Online Portal

The CAMP Online Portal is available to anyone with a UBC CPD eLearning account, which is free to create.

On the Online Portal, you can find more information about CAMP and review self-paced lessons on key coaching and mentoring skills such as providing effective feedback, active listening, powerful questions, and more.

Click here to visit the CAMP Online Portal.

Information for Coachee/Mentees

Receive up to 35 hours of peer support over the course of six months or request more time to be paired with your coach/mentor. You can work with one or multiple coaches/mentors.

Coachee/Mentee Eligibility

You can receive support through CAMP if you meet any of the following eligibility criteria:

• Fully or provisionally licensed physicians practicing in a rural British Columbia (BC) community as defined by the Rural Subsidiary Agreement. If you’re unsure about whether your community is covered by the RSA, you can look it up here.
• Rural BC locum physician
• Resident physicians in BC, planning to enter rural practice upon completion of residency

Information for Coach/Mentors

Coach/Mentor Time Commitment

Up to 35 hours per coachee/mentee plus an optional 14 hours of skills development.

We encourage pairs to discuss expectations for the relationship early on, including frequency of meetings, length of the relationship, types of coaching/mentoring activities, and ways of contacting each other.

If you are unable to commit to 35 hours over nine months or longer, please let us know and we would be happy to discuss your availability further.

Coach/Mentor Payment

Coaches/mentors are paid an hourly sessional rate of $176.18 for time spent working with their coachee(s)/mentee(s) and for attending Coach/Mentor Skill Development sessions. We ask that you keep a log of your calls to ensure accurate remuneration.

Coach/Mentor Skill Development

Coach/mentors have the opportunity to learn and develop key coaching and mentoring skills through Coach/Mentor Skill Development sessions. In each session, experienced physician coaches virtually lead a short lesson, and then provide an interactive opportunity to practice coaching/mentoring skills with your peers. Sign up to gain confidence, ask questions, share your experience, and connect with other coaches/mentors.

The project was developed and is operated by the UBC Faculty of Medicine's Division of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in partnership with the Rural Coordination Centre of BC. Funding for CAMP was provided by the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues, a joint committee of the Doctors of BC and BC Ministry of Health.

Up to 35 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits for coachees/mentees

Free

You might also be eligible for peer support through the Rural Surgical and Obstetrical Networks and the Rural Obstetrical and Maternity Sustainability Program Coaching. 

Rural Surgical and Obstetrical Networks

The Rural Surgical and Obstetrical Network (RSON) Coaching supports rural British Columbian surgical and obstetrical teams to build clinical and personal supportive relationships within their community and with their regional centre. This program supports community-specific learning needs of Creston, Fernie, Golden, Hazelton, Port Alberni, Powell River, Revelstoke, Sechelt, Smithers and Vanderhoof. 

For more information about coaching, please email camp.rcpd@ubc.ca

Rural Obstetrical and Maternity Sustainability Program Coaching 

Rural Obstetrical and Maternity Sustainability Program (ROAM-SP) Coaching supports BC obstetrical and maternity teams, including family physicians, midwives, obstetricians and nurses. 

To bring ROAM to your community or for other inquiries, please contact Adrienne Peltonen at apeltonen@rccb.ca or call toll-free at 1-877-908-8222. For information on eligibility, please see here. 

The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians.

This activity is an Accredited Group Learning (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program (MOC) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by UBC CPD. Coachees/Mentees may claim a maximum of 35.00 hours. 

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 1.00 Mainpro+® credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.