Internal Medicine Physician

@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Overview

NL Health Services is hiring a temporary full-time Internal Medicine locum physician at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre in Gander, NL. The role covers inpatient consultation, emergency and critical care on-call including weekends and holidays, and outpatient clinics such as diabetes clinics and exercise stress testing. Hours follow NL Health Services locum policy and pay follows locum rates.

Responsibilities:

Provide full-scope internal medicine services including inpatient consultation
Cover emergency and critical care on-call, including weekends and holidays
Deliver outpatient clinics such as diabetes clinics and exercise stress testing
Offer subspecialty outpatient services where applicable

Requirements summary:

Eligible for CPSNL registration and licensure as an Internist
MD from a recognized institution
Satisfactory criminal record and vulnerable sector checks
Satisfactory record of work performance and attendance
Work experience is an asset

Tools & skills

General medicine Vulnerable sector check

Source and dates

Source type not verified · nlhs

Employer posting date: 2026-04-20
First seen by our source: 2026-11-05
Source record updated: 2026-11-05

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Job details

Department	Physicians & advanced practice
Hours per week	40 (estimated)
Schedule	holidays, weekends
Travel	ground: none
Work setting	Hospital or clinic
Position	Sitting and standing
Physical demands	physical low · computer moderate
Licences & certifications	CPSNL registration, Internist licensure
Background checks	criminal record, vulnerable sector
Education	Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required)
Fields of study	Medicine

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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services

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Headquarters	St. John's
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Job description

Internal Medicine — Locum Zone: Central Zone Location: JPM - James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre, Gander, NL Internal Medicine – Locum Central Zone - Gander, NL Temporary Full-time EXTERNALDR

Hours	As per NL Health Services Locum Policy
Salary	As per Locum Rates
Competition Number	VAC0023934
Posted Date	2026-04-21
Closing Date	Open until filled.
Demands, duties, qualifications	ABOUT NL HEALTH SERVICES We are a provincial health authority responsible for delivering quality health care to approximately 550,000 people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Supported by over 23,000 employees and physicians, our team works together to improve the health and well-being of every person, in every community. Guided by the vision of the Health Accord NL, we offer a range of health-care programs and services through a wide network of facilities, clinics, and community services across five zones: Central, Eastern-Rural, Eastern-Urban, Labrador-Grenfell, and Western. At NL Health Services, we believe that our people — employees, doctors and volunteers — make it a great place to work. Every individual brings valuable knowledge, experience and perspective. It is in this diversity that we find strength. We are committed to embracing the distinct and complementary characteristics of our members, as we seek to eliminate health disparities, and ensuring we provide fair, equitable and quality health care to everyone. If you are passionate about making a difference and providing exceptional health care, we want to hear from you. Join our team and be part of something extraordinary. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY NL Health Services – Central Zone is seeking a Locum Internal Medicine Physician to join the team at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre in Gander, NL. The successful candidate will provide the full scope of Internal Medicine services as part of a collaborative team of physicians, technologists, and nurses at one of Central Zone's key referral centres. Services include inpatient consultation, emergency and critical care on-call, and outpatient clinics — including the option to participate in diabetes clinics and exercise stress testing. Physicians with a subspecialty are encouraged to apply and discuss the outpatient services they wish to offer. On-call commitments including weekends and holidays are shared equitably among all Internists. Work Environment Gander is a welcoming and well-serviced community in central Newfoundland, known for its friendly residents, rich aviation heritage, and easy access to the natural beauty of the region. Newfoundland and Labrador is the most easterly place in North America — a vast land offering a solitary wilderness one day and a vibrant culture the next, surrounded by stunning coastlines, breaching whales, icebergs, and incredible skyscapes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUALIFICATIONS Eligible for registration and licensure as an Internist with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador (www.cpsnl.ca) Medical Degree (MD) from a recognized institution Must satisfy credentialing requirements of NL Health Services including a satisfactory criminal record check and vulnerable sector check Satisfactory record of work performance and attendance Work experience is an asset Approved licensure pathways exist for specialists from Ireland, the UK, USA, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and other CPSNL-approved jurisdictions — visit www.cpsnl.ca for eligibility details ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Provide full scope of Internal Medicine services including inpatient consultation and ongoing patient management Provide emergency and critical care on-call coverage including weekends and holidays Deliver outpatient clinic services including diabetes clinics and exercise stress testing as applicable Offer subspecialty outpatient services where applicable Work collaboratively within a regional interdisciplinary team Support person- and family-centered care; promote patient and worker safety by integrating safety into work practices, identifying risks, and implementing improvements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMUNERATION Compensation will be in accordance with applicable NL Health Services locum policies. Incentives are based on the locum policy — contact the recruiter for details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates are asked to submit: Curriculum Vitae (CV) Supporting documentation (as applicable) Three (3) professional references Applicants who submit all required documentation will be considered for the review process. For more information or to apply, please contact: Cassandra Hodder [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEARN MORE ABOUT PRACTICING IN NL https://workinhealthnl.ca/ https://www.nlhealthservices.ca/ NL Health Services is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.