Expected Hours: Full-time hours (1.0 FTE)
Zone: Western Zone
Type of Remuneration: Fee For Service (FFS)
Incentive Programs Available: Yes
Company Description Yarmouth Regional Hospital (YRH) is seeking a general internist to join their collegial group which includes a cardiologist, nephrologist and gastroenterologist. Inpatient call is equally shared and include an Intensive Care Unit. Physicians have an opportunity to work as a preceptor to medical students and residents. YRH is a community site for the CoreInternal Medicine program at Dalhousie University with approximately 4-5 residents per year. In addition, a fellowship program for the R4 and R5 fellows provides two fellows per year full-time.
YRH offers echocardiography, exercise stress testing with nuclear imaging and pharmacologic stress testing, pacemaker follow up, endoscopy (diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy), bronchoscopy, PFTs, sleep studies, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis (acute and chronic). The Intensive Care Unit has its own portable ultrasound machine. There is a Cardiac Rehab Clinic managed by a nurse and physiotherapist in collaboration with Internal Medicine physicians. Traveling internal medicine clinics to small communities in the Western Zone, particularly Digby and Shelburne, provide outreach services.
Originally founded in 1912, YRH has developed into a vast health care complex serving the 60,000 people of Shelburne, Yarmouth, and Digby Counties. YRH has 124 inpatient beds and provides a range of primary and secondary services through in-patient, outpatient and satellite programs:
Dalhousie School of Nursing
chronic pain clinic
Services:
alternate level of care unit
ambulatory care




anesthesiology
cardiac investigation and respiratory services
dialysis
mental health and addictions services
obstetrics and gynecology
occupational therapy
palliative care
physiotherapy
pre-natal clinic
public health
recreation therapy
stroke program
surgical unit
Job Description Responsibilities
provide full scope of practice internist services
participatein call shifts
provide support to your own site but also to others in the Western Zone if required, which includes day-time coverage and occasional overnight/weekend coverage
be responsible to the Zone Department Head for Internal Medicine for their qualified responsibilities and quality of practice
operate within the Medical StaffBylaws of Nova Scotia Health Authority
participate in teaching both family medicine and internal medicine residents and fellows
Expected Hours
full-time
on-call requirement for Internal Medicine (1:7)
weekly coverage for ICU and Internal Medicine hospitalist during which time physician willprovide outpatient care appropriate to their subspecialty
Yarmouth is located at the southwestern most tip of Nova Scotia serving a population of approximately 60,000 in three counties. Affordable housing is available on stunning ocean and lake-frontage properties. Yarmouth is the recreational,



entertainment and shopping hub of the southwest area. There is so much to enjoy about the Southwestern end of Nova Scotia, including a unique and storied Acadian French history and beaches that take your breath away!Yarmouth is also connected to the United States through an international ferry service that makes cross border adventures possible with ease.
Our enviable combination of urban amenities and rural natural beauty offers an excellent quality of life for the people that live here. Nova Scotia offers the medical professional opportunities found in larger cities while maintaining a work-life balance in livable, walkable, and affordable communities.
Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement. That's what makes practicing medicine in Nova Scotia unique. Physicians are increasingly attracted to practices that offer team-based care to their patients and allow them to consult with their peers. The size and scale of Nova Scotia allows for better connections across the health care system. Your practice of medicine and your life is richer here. Nova Scotia is more than medicine.
Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. Our priority groups are Aboriginal People, African Nova Scotians, Persons with Disabilities and Recent Immigrants. Members of these groups are welcome to apply and self-identify if they wish to be considered under our Employment Equity policy.

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📌 Internal Medicine-Yarmouth (Nova Scotia)
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