Emergency Physician- Shelburne

Nova Scotia Healthcare System; Churchover; On-site; CAD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive programs available

Opportunity to mentor medical residents

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Nova Scotia is seeking a full-time emergency physician who will also provide comprehensive primary care. This role involves examining patients, ordering tests, advising on health promotion, and collaborating with other medical practitioners. Located in a rural community near the beautiful South Shore, this position offers a fulfilling lifestyle, strong professional development opportunities, and a commitment to diversity within the workforce.

Qualifications

• Must be a licensed medical doctor with experience in emergency medicine.
• Experience in family practice is desirable.
• Strong communication and patient advocacy skills required.

Responsibilities

• Examine patients and take their histories.
• Order diagnostic tests and laboratory procedures.
• Advise patients on health care and disease prevention.
• Consult and refer to other medical practitioners.
• Act as a patient advocate.
• Prescribe and administer medications and treatments.

Skills

Patient examination

Diagnostic tests ordering

Patient health promotion

Consulting with medical practitioners

Medication administration

Education

Medical Doctor (M.D.)

Job description

• Expected Hours: Full-time hours (1.0 FTE)
• Zone: Western Zone
• Type of Remuneration: Other
• Incentive Programs Available: Yes

Company Description

Roseway Hospital (RH) is seeking a full-time emergency physician who, if desired, can also provide office based comprehensive primary care and inpatient care. RH provides health care services to approximately 15,000 Shelburne County residents including inpatient, outpatient, and satellite care as well as primary, ambulatory, and emergency care.

Located in Shelburne, RH has 19 inpatient beds and works closely with other health care facilities in Yarmouth, Kentville, Liverpool, Bridgewater, and Halifax. Shelburne County also has a new collaborative practice clinic that provides the opportunity to mentor medical residents enrolled in the Dalhousie Family Medicine Program.

RH provides a range of primary and secondary services through in-patient, outpatient, and satellite programs:

• Barrington clinic
• stroke clinic

Services:

• audiology
• cardiac care
• internal medicine
• laboratory services (Lockeport)
• outpatient mental health and addiction services
• nutrition and diabetes counseling
• obstetrics & gynecology
• physiotherapy
• plastic surgery
• recreation therapy
• surgery unit

Job Description

Responsibilities

• examine patients and take their histories
• order diagnostic tests and laboratory procedures
• advise patients on health care, health promotion, and disease prevention
• consult and refer to other medical practitioners
• act as a patient advocate
• prescribe and administer medications and treatments, inoculations and vaccinations

Conveniently located an hour from Yarmouth and just two hours from Halifax, on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore, the Town of Shelburne is a unique, rural community with a lot to experience.

Our Municipality offers lighthouses, rugged coastlines, white sand beaches, fishing villages with colourful boats and neighbourly people. You can cycle our rural roads, walk our trails, go fishing in our lakes and rivers, paddle in the ocean or sit back and bird watch. For the golfer, we have a beautiful 18 hole golf course in Clyde River and in Birchtown, you can take a guided tour of the new Black Loyalist Heritage Centre and Historical Site, the first freed black settlement in North America. Each day in Sandy Point when the tide is low, you can walk to the lighthouse and in the summer, stop at their Community Centre to enjoy refreshments and ice cream.

The Municipality boasts a rich maritime history and the third best natural harbour in the world. We invite you to come and give yourself a rest from life’s hustle and bustle, where you can enjoy everything we have to offer at your own pace. We value a quality of life that is second to none and we want to share this with you. Click here to learn more about Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement. That's what makes practicing medicine in Nova Scotia unique. Physicians are increasingly attracted to practices that offer team-based care to their patients and allow them to consult with their peers. The size and scale of Nova Scotia allows for better connections across the health care system. Your practice of medicine and your life is richer here. Nova Scotia is more than medicine.

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. Our priority groups are Aboriginal People, African Nova Scotians, Persons with Disabilities and Recent Immigrants. Members of these groups are welcome to apply and self-identify if they wish to be considered under our Employment Equity policy.