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Position Permanent Part Time Leading to Full Time

Job Requirements

Employer

Palisades Medical Clinic

Education

Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry

Work setting

- Urban area
- Private practice

Tasks

- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals
- Help patients develop healthy habits, break old habits and reshape their approach to wellness
- Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures to determine the most appropriate medical treatment
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Participate on institutional committees
- Participate in health care policy and planning
- Advise patients on health care
- Be the patient advocate
- Co-ordinate or manage primary patient care
- Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
- Supervise home care services

Supervision

3-4 people

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

- College of Family Physicians Certification (CCFP)
- Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada (LMCC)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities




- Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE I and MCCQE II)

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General Practitioners and Family Physicians

CREATIVE

Interest in precision working to diagnose diseases, prescribe treatments and provide continuous care to patients

SOCIAL

Interest in mentoring by providing counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues, by advising patients and their families on health care including health promotion and disease, illness and accident prevention and by referring patients to specialists

DIRECTIVE

Interest in co-ordinating information from the results of medical tests to advise patients on health care options; in providing acute care management, in co-ordinating or managing primary patient care and in supervising home care services

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Typical ability expectations for this job

Are you a good student who is interested in lifelong learning? Do you have a strong desire to make a difference in the health and welfare of others? Then you may want to examine a career as a family physician.

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