general practitioner - Burin, Canada - Eastern Regional Health Authority

Description

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 75 hours bi-weekly
• Education: Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
• Experience: Experience an asset

Work setting

• Hospital (staff position)
• Rural area

Tasks

• Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
• Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
• Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
• Advise patients on health care
• Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
• Provide acute care management
• Provide emergency care

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities

Specialization in family practice

• Emergency medicine
• Rural medicine

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Child Abuse Registry check
• Eligible for professional liability insurance
• Basic security clearance
• Adult Abuse Registry check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Manual dexterity
• Repetitive tasks
• Large caseload
• Large workload

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

Health benefits

• Health care plan

Financial benefits

• Group insurance benefits
• Life insurance
• Pension plan

Other benefits

• Other benefits