Palliative Care Physician - Pictou County

Job summary

The physician will provide integrated palliative care across hospital, home, and long-term care settings while collaborating with family physicians and other specialists. They are also responsible for mentoring medical students and residents and participating in interprofessional initiatives.

Job details

The physician will provide integrated palliative care across hospital, home, and long-term care settings while collaborating with family physicians and other specialists. They are also responsible for mentoring medical students and residents and participating in interprofessional initiatives. Candidates must be certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with a certificate of added competence in Palliative Care. Applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia.

What you’ll do

The physician will provide integrated palliative care across hospital, home, and long-term care settings while collaborating with family physicians and other specialists. They are also responsible for mentoring medical students and residents and participating in interprofessional initiatives.

Requirements

Candidates must be certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with a certificate of added competence in Palliative Care. Applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• EMR grants
• Funded locum coverage
• CME funding
• Parental leave
• Physician advisors

Listed skills

• Care Planning · Preferred
• Interprofessional Collaboration · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Palliative care
• Clinical consultation
• Shared-care model
• Medication administration
• CADD pump usage
• Mentoring
• Interprofessional collaboration
• Therapeutic paracentesis
• Patient assessment
• Care planning

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Science & Research
• Government & Public Sector

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