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Take advantage of Canada’s best kept secret!

If you would like to invest in that sense of adventure either personally or vocationally, give us a try. If you are interested, come and do a locum... see how the practice feels and experience all that the Yukon has to offer. Perhaps  you will be like the rest of us who “came only for a three month summer  locum"!
  • Year round
    • One to two locum positions available
    • Two week to three month terms

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  • May to September
    • Three locum positions available

      • One to three month terms
Financial Arrangements and Incentives
License Requirements
Locum Duties
On Call
The Hospital
The Medical Community
For details of locum contracts: Cathy Grimley - (867) 393-6632 or wmsl@klondiker.com

Financial Arrangements and Incentives

  • Billing is Fee For Service
  • Locums of one month or less
    • 70% - 30% on all work
    • difficult to arrange ER shifts in the regular roster for locums of one month or less
    • ER shifts could be picked up once here
  • Locums of one month to 6 month duration
    • 65% - 35% with 90% - 10% on ER work.
  • Locums of more than 6 months
    • Financial arrangements on request

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  • Travel provided
  • Accommodation provided
  • Licensing costs paid

License Requirements (updated Dec 2002)

  • L.M.C.C. Parts 1 and 2 and
  • C.C.F.P.  or
  • two years of post graduate training; one of which must have been in Canada or the United States.
    • Post graduate training should consist of 8 weeks in each of, medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics, and 4 weeks in each of, psychiatry, emergency medicine and family/general practice in a hospital recognized by and acceptable to the Yukon Medical Council.

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  • If clarification of licensing is required one must contact the Yukon Medical Council for a final decision:

Locum Duties

Clinic Practice Coverage:
  • Regular patients of the practice you are covering, booked appointments.
  • Regular patients of that physician on an urgent ‘fit-in’ basis. Extras, from the clinic at large.
  • Review and action, as necessary, on all incoming lab, diagnostic imaging and other clinical reports.
  • EO shifts (half day of seeing ‘extras’ only), regularly scheduled for all clinic doctors.
    • Other Clinic Coverage:
  • Maternity patients of the practice you are covering (negotiable)
  • Hospital in-patients of the practice you are covering.
  • Long term care patients of the practice you are covering.
  • Home care patients of the practice you are covering.
    •  Extra Coverage:
  • Additional patient coverage for other doctors, through mutual agreement.

    • On Call

    First Call:
  • GP run emergency department - 24 hr in-hospital coverage
  • Shifts are 6-8 hours
  • Weekday call is about one shift per week (morning, afternoon, evening or night shift)
  • Weekend call is about 1 in 5
    • Second Call:
  • Shifts scheduled with your weekend on call
  • Be available by phone and physically available within 30 minutes for busy periods
    • In-Patients:
  • Doctors are responsible for their own in-patients and maternity patients

    • The Hospital

    Whitehorse General Hospital was newly constructed in 1997. It is an accredited 49 bed acute care hospital serving the Yukon Territory, northern British Columbia and parts of Alaska.

    Wards:

  • Medical
  • Surgical
  • Pediatrics
  • Maternity
  • ICU (three beds)
  • Ambulatory Care (ER and Short Stay)
    • OR suites:
  • two OR theatres
  • minor procedure room
    • Diagnostic imaging:
  • computed radiology (digital images)
  • two x-ray suites
  • ultrasound and one technician
  • mammography program
  • teleradiology service
  • CT Scanner with PACS system for digital images
  • visiting radiologist two days per month
    • Computerized medical records:
  • using the MEDITECH hospital system
    • Air Medevac service:
  • adminstered by Ambulance Services
  • intra-territorial and extra-territorial air medevacs
  • separate physician roster for medevacs

    • The Medical Community

    Resident family physicians:
  • Approx. 40, full-time and part time
  • Excellent support from colleagues
    • Resident specialists:
  • General Surgery
  • Anesthesia
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
    • Visiting specialists:
  • Vancouver - Dermatology, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Oncology,  Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Child Psychiatry
  • Edmonton - Internal Medicine (blood-borne diseases)
  •  Medical Imaging Consultants, Edmonton - Radiology
  • Excellent phone consultation service from these specialists
    • Ancillary health services:
  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dietary
  • Diabetic Teaching Clinic
  • First Nations Health Office
  • Yukon Communicable Disease Clinic
  • TB Control
  • Mental Health Unit
  • Whitehorse Health Clinic (public health, immunizations, prenatal classes, etc)
  • Thomson Centre Long-term Care Facility
  • Copper Ridge Residential, Special Care, Long-term Care Facilty
  • MacAulay Lodge Residental Care Facility
  • Yukon Family Services Association (counselling)
  • Dept of Health Home Care Services
  • Hearing Services
  • Child Development Centre and Early Intervention Program
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