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Sunrise Health Region requires a permanent, fulltime Family Physician for the Town of Kamsack.
Physicians must hold or be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan and must maintain insurance/membership with the Canadian Medical Protective Association.
The qualified candidate will work in the rural community and must legally be entitled to work in Canada.
The successful applicant may apply for the Rural Practice Establishment Grant Program offered through the Saskatchewan Medical Association. A return in service commitment is required.
Position Summary and Geographic Information:
The position works primarily out of the rural area; the medical clinics are modern, well organized and fully equipped. On call at the local hospital in a 1:4 rotation is required.
Kamsack is a vibrant community located in the east central part of the province of Saskatchewan, with a population of over 2,000 and services a trading area of approximately 20,000. The Town of Kamsack is about a one hour drive from the City of Yorkton and its Regional hospital and about a 10 minute drive to the popular Duck Mountain Provincial Park.
The Sunrise Health Region currently provides the following specialty services:
- Obstetrics/Gynecology - Ophthalmology
- General Surgery - Medical Health Officer
- Radiology - Anesthesiology
- Psychiatry - Pediatrician
- Internal Medicine
Remuneration and Incentives:
Remuneration is fee for service. Each community may offer their own additional incentives.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
Specialization in Family Practice
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Rural medicine
- Nutritional counselling
- Geriatrics
- Family counselling
- Emergency medicine
Additional Skills
- Participate in health care policy and planning
- Participate on institutional committees
Specific Skills
- Advise patients on health care
- Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Perform patient advocacy role
- Manage patient care
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients
- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' health
- Communicate health promotion/disease prevention to patients
Work Setting
- Rural community health centres
- Private practice
- Clinics
- Chronic or long-term care facilities
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