Family Medicine Inpatient Care - Liverpool

Overview

• Full-time
• Expected Hours: Full-time hours (1.0 FTE)
• Estimated Annual Salary: To Be Determined
• Zone: Western Zone
• Specialization: Family Practice
• Type of Remuneration: Daily Rate
• Incentive Programs Available: Yes

Queens General Hospital (QGH) in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, has an opportunity for a family medicine physician to join our Hospitalist Service to provide inpatient care one to two weeks per month. Eligible candidates will possess or be eligible for full or restricted licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia and have active memberships with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA).

As a family physician, we know your skills are in high demand - but we are confident a look around our community and hospital will show them to be worthy venues for you to employ them.

Your Role with Us

Most of our physicians currently performing hospitalist work split their scheduled week between the medical floor and their family practice, so most weeks we have two hospitalists splitting the patient roster. However, we are interested in speaking with physicians who are willing to provide either solo or split coverage. Physicians managing the QGH Hospitalist Service are expected to:

• Coordinate patient care and lead a multidisciplinary inpatient team.
• Participate in twice-weekly team rounds and other quality improvement and evaluation activities.
• Manage the medical needs of 20–26 inpatients throughout their respective hospitalizations (on average, this will make for around an eight-hour shift per day).
• Facilitate patient transfers to facilities with higher levels of care if medically indicated.
• Coordinate appropriate community-based care upon discharge, if necessary.
• Adhere to all bylaws, rules, and regulations set out by the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
• Be available for overnight calls from nursing staff caring for inpatients under your care.
• Call may be taken from the physician’s residence.
• Expected response time from notification to arrival on site is twenty minutes.
• The vast majority of calls do not require in-person intervention; however, the physician must be available if a patient’s presentation makes it necessary.
• Depending on roster size and acuity, it is quite common to receive no calls overnight.

Pay and Perks

Remuneration of approximately $10,000 to $12,000 per Monday-Sunday work week, depending on volume. An on-call stipend of an additional $350 per weeknight and $500 per weekend night. The ability to bill on a fee-for-service basis for patients seen between 5:00 PM and 8:00 AM. Teaching opportunities through Dalhousie University (if desired).

Our Community

An eighty-minute drive southwest from Halifax, Liverpool is quintessential small-town Canada. The community offers amenities, historic downtown, and outdoor recreation, with a variety of shops, services, and cultural venues. Physicians here join the rest of their colleagues in Nova Scotia in providing fulfilling patient care in an environment that strives to balance family life, professional development, and community involvement. You have the opportunity to be part of a team where peer consults are expected and welcomed, and where providing quality patient care is paramount. If these values resonate with you, join our team and be part of that mission.

Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement. 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.

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