Family Physician

Description:

There are currently immediate opportunities in Truro, Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville, and West Hants. For more information, please contact Ashley Harnish, Health Services Manager for Care by Design, at 902-717-0128 or via email at Ashley.Harnish@nshealth.ca.

Responsibilities

• deliver comprehensive primary health care services to practice patients of all ages and stages of health or illness with particular focus on geriatric care
• round on patients at the long term facility no less than once a week and be on call between 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday
• work with other providers in the geographical network to provide evening and weekend coverage
• utilize an electronic medical record (EMR) and record all relevant patient details in a provincially approved EMR which is common and accessible to all collaborating team members

Expected Hours

• permanent or locum, part-time
• minimum requirement to round on patients once a week
• shared evening and weekend call