Emergency Medicine Yarmouth Regional Hospital
About This Opportunity
Emergency Medicine physician wanted!
Yarmouth Regional Hospital (YRH) is seeking emergency physicians located in in the Town of Yarmouth in Southwest Nova Scotia this regional hospital serves a population of approximately 60,, in three counties.
The successful candidate may also participate in teaching through the family medicine residency program based in Yarmouth and / or with medical students through Dalhousie University.
YRH was originally founded in and has developed into a vast health care complex serving the 58, people of Shelburne, Yarmouth, and Digby Counties.
YRH has inpatient beds and provides a range of primary and secondary services through in-patient, outpatient and satellite programs :
- Dalhousie School of Nursing
- veteran’s unit
- chronic pain clinic
- kidney clinic
Services :
- alternate level of care unit
- ambulatory care
- anesthesiology
- cancer care centre
- cardiac investigation and respiratory services
- continuing care
- diabetes education
- diagnostic imaging
- dialysis
- emergency medicine
- falls prevention
- intensive care unit
- mental health and addictions services
- obstetrics and gynecology
- occupational therapy
- palliative care
- physiotherapy
- pre-natal clinic
- public health
- recreation therapy
- spiritual care
- stroke program
- surgical unit
Responsibilities
- examine patients, 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
Expected Hours
- full-time
- part-time
- locum
Qualifications
- College of Family Physicians of Canada Emergency Medicine certification would be considered an asset
- all applicants must be eligible for licensure with the (CPSNS)
- all family physicians must be eligible for certification with the (CFPC)
- membership with the (CMPA)
ACLS)
BCLS)
CCrISP)
NRP)
PALS)
- emergency department experience an asset