For information on other practice opportunities, visit our website at:

www.healthwest.nf.ca

Interested applicants are invited to send their resume to:

Monica Brake

Regional Director,

Medical Services

Western Regional Integrated Health Authority

P.O. Box 2005

Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada

A2H 6J7

 

Telephone: 709-637-5000

Extension 6432

Fax: 709-634-5063

mbrake@healthwest.nf.ca

16-05-2005

 

 

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

GENERAL PRACTITIONER

 RUFUS GUINCHARD HEALTH CENTRE

PORT SAUNDERS

The Western Regional Integrated Health Authority is seeking a General Practitioner to fill an immediate opening at Rufus Guinchard Health Centre in Port Saunders, Newfoundland on a permanent full-time basis.

Rufus Guinchard Health Centre is located in Port Saunders, overlooking the sea on the Great Northern Peninsula offering the area’s 3600 residents a modern, 30-bed facility.  The successful incumbent would work in association with two other General Practitioners as well as two full-time Nurse Practitioners.  The Health Centre provides the services of family physicians, nurse practitioners, as well as acute and long term in-patient care and diagnostic services.

Rufus Guinchard Health Care Centre is part of Memorial University’s telemedicine conferencing system, allowing physicians and other health professionals to continue learning through distance education programs.  You can explore walking trails that skirt the coastline and take in the view of the lighthouse on Kepple Island.   Winter activities include ice fishing, snowmobiling and cross country skiing.

Interested applicants must be eligible for registration with the Newfoundland Medical Board, and satisfy credentialing requirements of the Western Regional Integrated Health Authority.

Physicians interested in providing long term locum coverage will also be considered.