Emergency Veterinarian

Are you a Primary Care Veterinarian looking for a non-corporate, learning environment where you can develop and advance your small animal urgent and emergency medicine skills?

From our Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) on the charming and conveniently located UPEI campus in Charlottetown - a cutting-edge tertiary referral centre for Atlantic Canada - you can enjoy life on beautiful Prince Edward Island, filled with wandering trails, endless beaches and unique experiences everywhere you look

We can offer you:
- On-campus access to our sports and fitness centre, swimming pool, restaurants, cafes, health and wellness, physiotherapy, and rehab facilities.- A comprehensive benefits and insurance package (in accordance with UPEIFA, BU2), including health and dental, RRSP, tuition waivers, progressive paid vacation and leave allowances, access to Employee Family Assistance Program and access to professional development funds and opportunities.- Competitive salary with eligibility for market differential (in accordance with UPEIFA, BU2 and UPEI)- PEIVMA membership paid.- Staff discounts on veterinary services and pet food.

We have a supportive teaching environment across our Small and Large Animal Hospitals, offering state-of-the-art technology with advanced imaging modalities including CT and MRI, and boasting over 20 specialist veterinarians alongside talented primary care veterinarians with a highly skilled team of veterinary technicians and support staff.

This is an exciting time for the primary urgent and emergency service, as the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) is seeking to recruit faculty in small animal emergency and critical care, whose scope of work would include working with and playing a foundational role in supporting and leading the primary emergency service.

Operating from 8am-10pm, Monday-Sunday, this service provides patient triage and emergency care coverage for clients and in support of veterinary clinics across Prince Edward Island. This service is part of the clinical teaching program in the VTH and emergency clinicians will provide clinical teaching to fourth year DVM students in urgent care and emergency medicine.

We are seeking a primary care veterinarian to join the team working within the AVC-VTH Small Animal Primary Care Urgent and Emergency service, in a 0.5 FTE part-time term position until April 30, 2025, with the possibility of extension.

**Responsibilities and Requirements**:

- To provide clinical service in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, including while working with, overseeing and evaluating final year DVM students as part of the clinical year teaching program elective rotation in emergency medicine.
- To provide leadership in the management of the emergency service while on shift including providing guidance and coordination to technical/support staff and overseeing interns with primary care urgent/emergency cases.
- To work efficiently to TRIAGE, assess, and treat all urgent and emergency service cases to a high standard of primary care level medicine, including diagnostics and basic emergency procedures.
- To work and communicate effectively with clients and referral services within the VTH to ensure smooth, efficient transfer of specialty referral level cases.
- To ensure that all medical records are promptly completed, and written discharge communications are promptly provided to the client (and their regular veterinarian, where relevant).
- To ensure that clients (i) are given accurate estimates, provide informed consent and a deposit is received prior to hospitalization, diagnostics and treatments and (ii) are given regular estimate/billing updates and (iii) that billing is completed accurately prior to discharge and that payment is received.
- To provide clear, thorough and professional communication for case management with clients, colleagues and island veterinarians.
- To ensure that the client has received adequate communication at discharge to know the next steps for monitoring, at-home care (treatments), and follow-up.
- Initiative, adaptability and flexibility to work within an academic, specialty referral setting, and to efficiently and effectively manage the unpredictable caseload associated with urgent and emergency medicine.
- Interest and commitment to ongoing development of emergency medicine skills, knowledge and techniques in a specialty teaching hospital setting.
- Willingness to work in a rotating shift schedule including days, swing, late and weekend shifts to provide urgent and emergency veterinary care.
- Willingness to work statutory holidays and university closures (including storm closures) to provide urgent and emergency veterinary care.
- Willingness to participate in on-call duties to oversee the hospital's primary emergency service inpatients, and if needed, to respond to overnight VTH client primary emergency presentations (following triage).

**Qualifications**:

- Graduation from an accredited veterinary college resulting in DVM