Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
- or equivalent experience
- Family medicine residency programs
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Urban area
- Willing to relocate
- Private industry
- Private practice
- Clinic
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals
- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
- 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
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Participate on institutional committees
- Advise patients on health care
- Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases to government authorities
- Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
- Be the patient advocate
- Co-ordinate or manage primary patient care
- Provide acute care management
- Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- College of Family Physicians Certification (CCFP)
- Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada (LMCC)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
Additional information
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
Benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
Other benefits
- Other benefits
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available