Emergency Medicine - Windsor

About This Opportunity

Hants Community Hospital (HCH), is seeking full-time or part time emergency medicine physicians to join their team. There is opportunity to engage in research and/or teaching positions with Dalhousie University, as well as, local simulation based opportunities, should that be of interest. HCR ED is approximately 40 minutes drive from the region's tertiary care pediatric facility, the IWK Health Centre, and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. 

HCH services include:

• 24-hour emergency department
• inpatient care (28 hospital beds)
• long-term care facility (32 beds)
• surgery programs including general and orthopedic surgery
• several specialty clinics (including obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, hematology)
• mental health team

On call services are provided from Halifax and Kentville.

Responsibilities

• duties include full scope of practice as an emergency physician 
• the physician will be responsible to the department head for emergency medicine for their professional responsibilities and quality of practice, and will operate within the Medical Staff Bylaws of the Nova Scotia Health Authority

Expected Hours

• full-time
• 10-hour day shifts and 14 hour night shifts available
• flexible shifts each month
• single coverage shifts

Qualifications

•  all applicants must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia (CPSNS)
•  all family physician must have membership with the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
•  all specialists must be eligible for certification with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
•  membership with the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)
• all applicants must have a current PALS Certification
• all applicants must have a current ATLS Certification
• all applicants must have a current ACLS Certification

Community Details

A proud history, vibrant lifestyle and a bright future all combine to make picturesque Windsor a magnetic visitor destination and a delightful community in which to live and work.

Located in the heart of Nova Scotia at the eastern gate to the famed Annapolis Valley, Windsor features the benefits of rural living as well as convenient proximity to Metropolitan Halifax.

While quickly gaining renown as "The Birthplace of Hockey", Windsor is also home to historic Fort Edward, the original Sam Slick Days festival, now known as the annual Windsor~West Hants Summer Fest, Howard Dill's Giant Pumpkins, and the internationally-recognized Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia.

Skiing at Martock, golf at the Avon Valley Golf & Country Club, and a host of community events throughout the year add to Windsor's claim that it is perhaps the best place in Nova Scotia in which to live and play!