Family Medicine

Description:

Porter’s Lake Medical Clinic is currently seeking a full-time Physician, located a short 40 minute drive from Halifax (30 minutes from Dartmouth). This practice offers the opportunity to participate in hospitalist coverage for a 16-bed inpatient unit, Long-term care and a level 4 Emergency Department at the Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital as a part of its Collaborative Emergency Centre model of Care (CEC). The call schedule for the emergency department is currently 1:6.

The position is compensated through the CEC hourly rate, offers competitive overhead, and is eligible for the current DHW incentive program.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Examine patients and take their histories, order diagnostic tests and laboratory procedures
• Advise patients on health care, health promotion, and disease prevention
• Consultation and referral to other medical practitioners
• Act as a patient’s advocate
• Prescribe and administer medications and treatments, inoculations and vaccinations
• Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases as per Nova Scotia Public Health requirements

Qualifications

• Eligible for Licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia (CPSNS)
• Eligible for certification with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
• Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)