Cardiologist & General Internal Medicine - Antigonish

at  Nova Scotia Health Authority

Requisition ID: 160229
Opportunity Type: Permanent
Estimated Annual Salary: 350,000 - 400,000
Type of Remuneration: FFS - Fee For Service
Site Visit & Reallocation Allowance Programs: Relocation Program; Site Visit Program
For information and to determine eligibility for Department of Health and Wellness Incentives, please contact Physician.Resources@novascotia.ca

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

St Martha’s Regional Hospital is seeking a General Internist, with cardiology subspecialty preferred, to join the Internal Medicine group. SMRH is an acute care centere with approx. 90 inpatient beds, offers echocardiography, exercise stress testing with nuclear imaging and pharmacologic stress testing, pacemaker follow up, endoscopy (diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy), bronchoscopy, PFTs, Sleep studies, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis (acute and chronic). Diagnostic imaging modalities include General imaging, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, CT scanning, and MRI. The ICU has its own portable ultrasound machine. There is a Cardiac Rehab Clinic managed by a Nurse Practitioner and physiotherapist in collaboration with Internal Medicine Physicians.

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates must be a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada ( RCPSC ) or eligible to take the Fellowship Exam in Internal Medicine. Must hold or be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia (CPSNS).

Successful candidates are expected to share the Internal Medicine call rotation. Some positions provide weekly coverage for the Intensive Care Unit and IM Hospitalist roles, as well as provide outpatient care appropriate to their sub specialty. St. Martha’s is a teaching site for Dalhousie University Medical School’s Internal Medicine Program and, as such, there is an expectation to participate in teaching both family medicine and internal medicine residents and fellows.