Family Medicine

Nova Scotia Health Authority's innovative Care by Design program provides residents of long-term care facilities access to high-quality and consistent primary care. Care by Design strives to achieve quality of life for our most frail seniors and an appropriate health care approach to meet their health needs. The program ensure comprehensive, collaborative, and resident-centered care.

As a Care by Design physician, you will join dozens of existing family physicians on a collaborative team that strives to improve continuity and quality of resident care in long-term care facilities by ensuring better safety of residents' medication regimens, reducing transfers to emergency departments, and empowering residents to be participants in their care planning.

Physicians are assigned to one geographical network, providing them with minimal travel and improved communication with facilities and residents. The networks allow for robust on call services, more efficient training, and supportive quality improvement opportunities. Physicians are assigned to one floor/wing/unit in a facility and visit no less than once per week at a scheduled time. After hours "on call" is supported by a group of physicians and are centrally managed. Physicians are paid for fee-for-service under NS MSI, an additional stipend is paid for on-call shifts and there are no overhead costs to participate in Care by Design.
There are currently immediate opportunities in Truro, Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville, and West Hants. For more information please contact Heather Rushton, Physician Recruitment Consultant at

• permanent or locum, part-time
• minimum requirement to round on patients once a week
• shared evening and weekend call

• all applicants must be eligible for Licensure with the (CPSNS)
• all specialists must be eligible for certification with the (CFPC)
• membership with the (CMPA)