Specialty Selection Menu

Telephone Tree list for the specialty areas. You can select your specialty at any time during the voice message

Local RACE Line Number: 604-696-2131
Toll free number: 1-877-696-2131.

 

Welcome to the RACE telephone advice line – Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise.

If you are experiencing difficulty with this line or your call is not returned within 2 hours, please call 604-682-2344 extension 66522 or email nmiraftab@providencehealth.bc.ca

This line is available Monday to Friday 08:00- 5:00 excluding statutory holidays. If you know your option number, you can press your option at any time throughout the message.

Press 0 for administrative help or questions

Press 1 for the following specialties. You will hear an additional telephone tree option list to choose from:

1. Addictions Medicine
2. Emergency Medicine
3. General Cardiology
4. Heart Failure specialist
5. Cardiovascular Risk and Lipid Management
6. Cardiac Transplant
7. Otolaryngology/ENT
8. Sleep Disorders
9. Vascular Surgery

Press 2 for the following specialties. You will hear an additional telephone tree option list to choose from:

1. Endocrinology
2. Geriatric Medicine
3. Pediatric Gastroenterology
4. General Internal Medicine
5. Hand and Upper Limb Orthopedic Conditions
6. Gynecology
7. Leg, Ankle, Foot Orthopedic Conditions
8. Pediatric Orthopedic Conditions

Press 3 for the following specialties. You will hear an additional telephone tree option list to choose from:

1. HIV Care, Treatment and Prophylaxis (this is not an infectious disease line)
2. Nephrology
3. Adult Psychiatry
4. Child and Youth Psychiatry
5. General Pediatrics
6. Eating Disorders – Psychiatry
7. Geriatric Psychiatry
8. Perinatal Psychiatry
9. Perinatal Addictions

Press 4 for the following specialties. You will hear an additional telephone tree option list to choose from:

1. Respirology
2. Adult Rheumatology over the age of 18, for advice on patients <18 – call children’s hospital Rheumatology
3. Trans Gender Care
4. Medical Assistance in Dying Advice
5. Ophthamology
6. Medical Refugee Health
7. Thrombosis
8. Sexually Transmitted Infection Service (STI)
9. Radiology

Press 5 for the following specialties. You will hear an additional telephone tree option list to choose from:

1. Infectious Diseases
2. Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders
3. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
4. Tropical and Post-travel Medicine (as of July 3, 2018)

Specialty Selection Menu July 2018

Provincial Palliative Care Line – For those who do not have access to a local palliative care service, for advice or support, call 1 877 711-5757  In ongoing partnership with the Doctors of BC, the toll-free Provincial Palliative Care Consultation Phone Line is staffed by Vancouver Home Hospice Palliative Care physicians 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to assist physicians and nurse practitioners with advice about symptom management, psychosocial issues, or difficult end-of-life decision making.