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Alberta Health Services

Alberta Health Services is seeking a Full Time Family Medicine Hospitalist to join the team at St. Mary’s Hospital in Camrose, Alberta.

Physician Responsibilities: 

  • Primary role is to provide Inpatient care.
  • St. Mary’s Hospital will be expanding to three hospitalists.  Two covering the medical patients and an additional hospitalist attending to the surgical patients, collaborating with anesthesia on the planning of complex surgical patients, consulting on mental health patients that require medical attention and attending to the daytime ER admissions.
  • Weeks run from Wednesday to Thursday with handover on Tuesday nights.
  • On intake, complete admissions from ER or take direct admissions from GP Clinics and repatriations from RAAPID North.
  • Provide coverage for Code Blue

Required Qualifications:

  • For candidates who are inclined to practice Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine or Chemotherapy Clinics, they are required to do shifts or On-Call for both, in addition to the requirements of the position.
  • Candidates require recent and relevant experience in all scopes of practice to be performed.
  • All physicians who wish to practice in Alberta must hold a valid license with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta or must be eligible to license through the CPSA.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) course taken and renewed within the previous two years.
  • Recent (at least 6 months in the last 24 months) and relevant experience with inpatients.

 

Desired Qualifications: 

  • Canadian College of Family Physicians (CCFP) certification preferred