Physician, Family - Ottawa, Canada - Meadowlands Family Health Center

Meadowlands Family Health Center
Meadowlands Family Health Center
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Ottawa, Canada

4 weeks ago

Sophia Lee

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Work Term:
Permanent


  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 30 to 35 hours per week
  • Education: Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
  • Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
  • Medicine (MD)
  • Community health and preventive medicine

Work setting:


  • Urban area
  • Private practice
  • Acute care therapy
  • Family planning clinic

Tasks:


  • Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, Xrays and other diagnostic procedures
  • Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
  • Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
  • Perform and assist in routine surgery
  • Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
  • Participate in health care policy and planning
  • Deliver babies and provide prenatal and postnatal care
  • 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
  • Perform patient advocacy role
  • Coordinate 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
  • Provide emergency care
  • Refer clients with unusual skin conditions to physicians
  • Refer patients to ophthalmologists or other physicians and surgeons when ocular or other diseases are found
  • Care for, assess and monitor the health of newborns and refer infants to appropriate medical services as required
  • Diagnose patients' diseases and disorders
  • Prescribe medication and treatment and refer patients for surgery

Supervision:


  • Staff in various areas of responsibility
  • Working groups

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:


  • College of Family Physicians Certification (CCFP)
  • Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities

Specialization in family practice:


  • Emergency medicine
  • Family counselling
  • General surgery
  • Geriatrics
  • Gynecology
  • Internal medicine
  • Nutritional counselling
  • Obstetrics
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychotherapy
  • Sexually transmitted diseases

Security and safety:


  • Medical exam
  • Eligible for professional liability insurance
  • Immunization records

Work conditions and physical capabilities:


  • Fastpaced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Handeye coordination
  • Walking
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Manual dexterity
  • Large caseload
  • Large workload

Own tools/equipment:


  • Cellular phone
  • Pager
  • Mask

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

Screening questions:


  • Are you available for the advertised start date?
  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have the aboveindicated required certifications?

Financial benefits:


  • Bonus

Long term benefits:


  • Other benefits

Other benefits:


  • Free parking available
  • Onsite amenities
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Variable or compressed work week
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