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Job Details

GP (General Practitioner)

Employer

Pinnacle Medical Centres

Date Posted

September 16, 2024

Languages

English or French
  • Location Okotoks, AB
  • Earnings $250,000.00 to $400,000.00 annually (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 3  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Nov 10, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Pinnacle Medical Centres

Languages

English or French

Education

Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry

Work setting

  • Urban area
  • Private practice

Tasks

  • Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals
  • Examine patients' health condition to identify diseases and injuries
  • Help patients develop healthy habits, break old habits and reshape their approach to wellness
  • Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures to determine the most appropriate medical treatment
  • Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
  • Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
  • Perform and assist in routine surgery
  • Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care
  • Advise patients on health care
  • Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases to government authorities
  • Be the patient advocate
  • Co-ordinate or manage primary patient care
  • Provide acute care management
  • Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada (LMCC)
  • Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
  • Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE I and MCCQE II)

Security and safety

Eligible for professional liability insurance

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Large workload

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Values and ethics

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Financial benefits

As per collective agreement

Long term benefits

Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Team building opportunities
  • Parking available
  • Variable or compressed work week

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The GP (General Practitioner) is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

General Practitioners and Family Physicians
INNOVATIVE

Interest in precision working to diagnose diseases, prescribe treatments and provide continuous care to patients

SOCIAL

Interest in mentoring by providing counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues, by advising patients and their families on health care including health promotion and disease, illness and accident prevention and by referring patients to specialists

DIRECTIVE

Interest in co-ordinating information from the results of medical tests to advise patients on health care options; in providing acute care management, in co-ordinating or managing primary patient care and in supervising home care services

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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Abilities

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