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Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
- College of Family Physicians Certification (CCFP)
Additional Skills
- Participate on institutional committees
Work Setting
- Rural community health centres
- Hospital (staff position)
- Chronic or long-term care facilities/centres
Specialization in Family Practice
- Rural medicine
Specific Skills
- Advise patients on health care
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Perform patient advocacy role
- 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
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
- Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care
- Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases to government authorities
- Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
- 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
- Provide emergency care
- Provide acute care management
Security and Safety
- Eligible for professional liability insurance
- Criminal record check
Own Tools/Equipment
- Cellular phone
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large caseload
- Large workload
Work Location Information
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Willing to relocate
Personal Suitability
- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Accurate
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Client focus
- Interpersonal awareness
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Values and ethics
- Reliability
- Organized