Primary Care Physician

Job summary

Provide comprehensive primary care, assess and diagnose illnesses and disorders, and manage treatment within the physician’s scope of practice. Promote health and prevent illness, assess fitness and employment limitations, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary healthcare team.

Job details

Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members. Position Overview Physicians function as an essential member of the health care team in the provision of comprehensive, multidisciplinary, collaborative primary health care services to the Canadian Armed Forces members. These services include primary care, minor trauma care, health promotion, prevention of diseases and injuries, rehabilitation, and support services. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have at rachel.jacques@calian.com. Responsibilities Performing comprehensive health assessments and synthesizing data from multiple sources to make a diagnosis of a disease or disorder. Initiating and managing the care of patients with a disease or disorder within his/her scope of practice and/or monitoring the ongoing therapy of patients with chronic stable illnesses by providing effective pharmacological, complementary, or counseling interventions Implementing strategies to promote health and prevent illness with individuals. Performing periodic health examinations and determining fitness of patients when those patients are faced with acute or chronic illness or disease. Making appropriate medical employment limitation recommendations Practicing as a member of an interdisciplinary team and consulting with members of other health professions as appropriate in order to ensure the health care needs of the patient are met. Qualifications Licensed and in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan Certification in Family Medicine with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CCFP) Basic Life Support for Health Providers or CPR/AED Level C Certification Additional Requirements You will be able to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level. CF Basic Aviation and Dive Medicine Certification is considered an asset but not mandatory. Vacancies We have one available position for a Flight Surgeon, we are open to looking at Primary Care Physicians who do not have the flight medicine and dive medicine course too. For more information, please feel free to contact rachel.jacques@calian.com with any questions you may have.

What you’ll do

Provide comprehensive primary care, assess and diagnose illnesses and disorders, and manage treatment within the physician’s scope of practice. Promote health and prevent illness, assess fitness and employment limitations, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary healthcare team.

Requirements

Applicants must be licensed and in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, hold CCFP certification in Family Medicine, and have Basic Life Support or CPR/AED Level C certification. Candidates must be eligible to obtain Reliability-level government security clearance; CF Basic Aviation and Dive Medicine certification is an asset but not required.

Listed skills

• interdisciplinary collaboration · Preferred
• Patient Counseling · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Comprehensive Health Assessment
• Clinical Diagnosis
• Primary Care
• Chronic Disease Management
• Pharmacological Interventions
• Patient Counseling
• Health Promotion
• Disease and Injury Prevention
• Periodic Health Examinations
• Fitness-for-Duty Assessment
• Medical Employment Limitations
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Minor Trauma Care
• Rehabilitation

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Government & Public Sector