Local Peer Support Programs

The Greater Victoria Physician Peer Support Pilot Program offers short-term, one-on-one peer support to doctors across our region, regardless of specialty or practice location. Their seven local Peer Supporters are trained and available to listen to their colleagues and help guide through next steps. Requests for peer support can made through their web form, and their program can be contacted via peersupport@southislandmsa.ca.

If you’d like to learn more about the Greater Victoria Physician Peer Support Pilot Program, please visit their website.

Created by and for rural clinicians, the Isolated Medical Provider Aftercare Team (IMPACT) offers confidential peer-to-peer support to rural physicians and to nurses in remote nursing stations in British Columbia who have experienced a potentially challenging incident in the course of their work.

To ask for an IMPACT peer supporter to reach out, call 1(236) 361-9090 and leave a confidential voicemail message. An IMPACT peer supporter will connect with you or the affected medical provider within 72 hours.

If you’d like to learn more about the IMPCAT Peer Supporter, please visit their website.

The North Shore Division of Family Practice’s Physician Peer Support program offers brief non-clinical support to physicians on the North Shore dealing with work or life-related stressors through trained physician peer supporters.

If you’d like to learn more about the program, please visit their website.

To submit a confidential request to access peer support, please click here.

The Physician Peer Support Program at the Penticton Regional Hospital encourages an authentic human connection with another person who shares similar life experiences — in this case, the unique stressors and challenges faced by physicians. PRH Peer Supporters offer non-judgmental listening and non-clinical emotional support with life, work, and other issues. Their aim is to facilitate these confidential, non-clinical empathetic conversations between colleagues, where physicians feel safe to share the issues they are experiencing with someone trained to listen.

You can request Peer Support by choosing the type of Peer Support you are requesting and then fill out the online form. For any additional questions, please contact peersupport@phrmsa.ca.

If you’d like to learn more about the Physician Peer Support Program at the Penticton Regional Hospital, please visit their website.

The Prince George Physician Peer Support Program provides confidential, short-term, non-clinical emotional support conversations among Prince George physician colleagues who understand the unique stressors and challenges faced by physicians in their community. Make a request for peer support for yourself or a colleague using this link. For more information, please email PhysPeerSuppPG@outlook.com.

Peer Support is open to all Residents and can be sought in one of two ways. Reach outs can be initiated by Program Directors who believe Peer Support would benefit a Resident who has experienced an emotionally distressing event. Additionally, Residents from all programs can reach in to the Resident Wellness Office to request Peer Support directly. Residents from any program who have experienced an emotionally distressing event or are just seeking supports and would like to be connected with a Peer Supporter, please reach out in our form below.

To request peer support, please fill out the self referral form via the online form. For any additional questions, please email resident.wellness@ubc.ca.

If you’d like to learn more about the RWO Peer Support Program, please visit their website.

The Public Health and Preventive Medicine Peer Support Program is designed to provide short-term peer support for PHPM Physicians who face unique challenges and workplace stresses in their position and could benefit from support from colleagues to create positive impacts on their wellbeing and workplace experiences. The PHPM Peer Support Programs offers confidential, non-clinical emotional support to physician colleagues by trained physician peer supporters in a 1:1 setting. Physicians seeking peer support can expect up to three 15-45 minute sessions with their matched peer supporter. If additional support is needed beyond three sessions the peer support program will provide information on other resources that can be accessed.

To request peer support, please fill out the self referral form via the online form. Requesting support for a colleague can be done through this online form.

To learn more about the program and its peer supporters, please email PHPM.PeerSupport@phabc.org.

Medical students can access peer support through the Medline Peer Support Program by going to this webpage  (you will need to use your Entrada sign in info to access the page and then click on Medline).

For any additional questions, please email medline.mus@gmail.com or to remain anonymous, text 778-998-4353.

The Vancouver Division Peer Support Initiative provides 1:1 confidential, non-clinical support to family physician colleagues in the City of Vancouver by physician Peer Supporters. Make a request for peer support for yourself or a colleague using this link. Once you’ve reached out, a Peer Supporter will connect with you or your colleague within 2-3 days to schedule a conversation.

If you’d like to learn more about the Vancouver Division Peer Support Initiative, please visit their website.

The VCH Physician Peer Support Program (PPSP) offers informal peer support to physicians experiencing a difficult time. This can include a mental health and/or substance use concern, college complaint, audit issue, workplace challenge/critical incident, trauma or uncertainty. 

Through the VCH PPSP, physicians can connect with a physician peer for support and guidance that is empathetic, safe, confidential, one-to-one, short-term, and at no cost.

For any additional questions, please contact PhysicianPeerSupport@vch.ca .

If you’d like to learn more about the VCH Physician Peer Support Program, please visit their website.