Family Practitioner/General Practitioner — Obstetrics - Operative Delivery

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NHA-7727

Status Open Site Dawson Creek & District Hospital Site Type Hospital Type of Position Permanent Date Range Hours of Work Regular, full time On Call 1:5 OB (MOCAP Level 1 for OB) On Call Comments

Dawson Creek is a MOCAP Level 1 community.

Current College of Physicians of BC License can be Full or Provisional. Start date is negotiable.

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LOCUMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE.

Northern Health is seeking one Family Physician with C-section and Advanced Operative Delivery skills, to join a well-established Family Medicine Clinic in Dawson Creek. Surgery would be limited to C-sections only. Join a dynamic group of three FP-OSS providers who are supported by an OB/GYN and FP-OBs. Call coverage for C/S & FP-OB is 1:5 and functions within a shared on-call model.

Anesthesia and Emergency Room shifts also available if qualified.

Dawson Creek and District Hospital is a full service community hospital that provides service to the local and surrounding communities. It has 31 acute care beds and 15 regional adult psychiatric beds. Services include:

• 24/7 emergency
• ICU
• Medical and surgical in-patient care
• Day surgery
• Orthopedic surgery
• Respiratory therapy
• Diabetic education
• Primary care
• General surgery
• Lab
• Medical imaging with CT
• Cancer care

If interested, please submit your CV to Health Match BC who will refer you to Physician Recruitment at Northern Health Authority.

Come and enjoy our wide blue skies and northern hospitality!
Dawson Creek is known as "Mile Zero", where the world-famous Alaska Highway begins!
The city has a population of approximately 12,500, provides primary service to a population of 20,000 and helps serve the larger population of the Peace River Region, approximately 60,000.

The city offers shopping, services, restaurants, cafés, a health food store, art gallery, live theatre, and the state-of-the-art EnCana Events Centre that hosts major music concerts. Our indoor Farmer's Market is open every Saturday, year-round!

Recreation opportunities include a state-of-the-art indoor Aquatic Centre, indoor walking track, gyms, yoga, Pilates, and dance studios, biking trails, golfing, swimming, boating, kayaking, paddle boarding, fishing, hiking, camping, bird watching, and visiting our numerous parks. In the wintertime, enjoy our indoor curling rink, two indoor skating rinks, a full-size outdoor speed skating oval, 25 kilometres of groomed trails for cross-country (Nordic) skiing, Bear Mountain Ski Hill (downhill skiing and snowboarding), back-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling.

The city has a wide variety of authentic cuisines including Chinese, Japanese, and Italian (to name a few), and also a wide variety of dining atmospheres: choose from high end restaurants, hotel buffets, familiar franchises, and local coffee shops.

Dawson Creek has eleven elementary schools, one middle school, one secondary school, and one private school (kindergarten to grade 12). Northern Lights College provides post-secondary education.

We look forward to welcoming you and your family to Northeastern British Columbia!

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