Embrace the adventure of a lifetime by joining the team at Inuvik Regional Hospital. Nestled in one of the most captivating regions of Canada. Here, you’ll have the chance to locum in a supportive environment while exploring breathtaking landscapes and engaging with our vibrant community. This is an opportunity to work with an award-winning peri-operative services team.

The successful candidate will work at the Inuvik Regional Hospital, the northernmost hospital with an operating room on the continent. This 48-bed facility includes long-term care and a 14-bed acute care unit featuring two labor and delivery rooms. Physicians in Inuvik are part of a primary care team, providing services at seven or more community health centers through scheduled travel, phone, and Telehealth consultations.

Your anesthesia skills will serve as a local gateway to all surgical subspecialties. Procedures within your scope will be well-supported by our local OR team, and there is an opportunity to scrub in with visiting surgical specialists. Your practice may include open or laparoscopic surgeries across various specialties, including general surgery, urology, orthopedics, and gynecology. You may also provide a blend of clinic, inpatient, emergency care, and/or remote community outreach at our rural site.

Our full-time team consists of Family physicians who practice a range of Rural Generalist practice styles, including Clinics, Inpatient care, Emergency medicine, Rural Outreach, Long term and community care, low and moderate risk Obstetrics, and those with Enhanced Surgical Skills / Obstetrical Surgical skills or Anesthetics. We also host visiting specialists from Yellowknife and Edmonton in fields such as Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedic Surgery, General Surgery, ENT, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and Psychiatry.

We preferentially hire staff physicians with FP-A training but do occasionally have locum opportunities for FRCP anesthesiologists. Typically, locum durations are at least 1 week, and we have new incentives for locums who provide more than 75 days of service within the NWT. Our locum physicians enjoy an increased guaranteed daily pay rate, and new incentives for long-term-recurrent locums. We also provide travel stipends, travel support, and accommodations. There is no practice overhead or management.

Interested in knowing more about living and working in the NWT? Visit www.PracticeNWT.ca or follow us on social media @practicenwt.

To apply for this job email your details to PracticeNWT@gov.nt.ca