Family Medicine Inpatient Care

Description:

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

• Barrington clinic
• bereavement group

Services:

• audiology
• cardiac care
• continuing care
• diagnostic imaging
• emergency medicine
• internal medicine
• laboratory services (Lockeport)
• outpatient mental health and addiction services
• nutrition and diabetes counseling
• obstetrics & gynecology
• otolaryngology
• physiotherapy
• recreation therapy
• speech language pathology

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• be accountable for management of your panel of hospitalist patients
• provide care and coordination of community-based care, and secondary and tertiary level heath care
• operate within the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of Nova Scotia Health Authority
• participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities

Expected Hours

While on hospitalist for the week you will be on call for your patients 24/7 (usually minimal calls overnight and rarely called in to the hospital in the evening). The position will require coverage for 1 or 2 weeks per 4 week cycle (1:4 or 2:4). If you desire, there is the potential to work additional weeks of hospitalist as availability permits, and there may be additional work opportunities in the orphan patient clinic, ER shifts, or locuming in local family doctor offices during your weeks off from hospitalist duties.

Qualifications

• all applicants must be 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)
• coverage with the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), or proof of alternative coverage
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)