Education : Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometryExperience : 2 years to less than 3 yearsWork setting
- Private practice
Tasks
- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals
- Examine patients' health condition to identify diseases and injuries
- Help patients develop healthy habits, break old habits and reshape their approach to wellness
- Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures to determine the most appropriate medical treatment
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
- Advise patients on health care
- Be the patient advocate
- Provide acute care management
- Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large caseload
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Values and ethics
Support for persons with disabilities
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Recruits newcomers and / or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example : Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
Support for youths
- Offers mentorship, coaching and / or networking opportunities for youth
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 35 to 40 hours per week