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Sunrise Health Region requires an additional Family Physician for the Town of Esterhazy. Physicians must hold or be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan and must maintain active membership and insurance with the Canadian Medical Protective Association. Candidate must be licensed and available to commence practice August 24, 2015 to January 17, 2016.
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