Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Earned doctorate degree
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Private practice
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
- Advise patients on health care
- Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
- 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)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
- Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE I and MCCQE II)
Additional information
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Team player
- Values and ethics