Description:

Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone, Department of Rural Medicine is inviting applications from physicians to provide anesthesia services at Canmore General Hospital starting in January 2025.

Canmore General Hospital is a community hospital with 21 acute care beds and 23 long term care beds.  The operating room is active five days per week with general surgery, and vascular surgery comprising the bulk of the elective work.  Local itinerant surgeons support Canmore's surgical program which performs almost 2,000 day surgeries and over 70 inpatient surgeries per year.  There is a list of exclusions and mandatory consultations for fitness for surgery in Canmore.  The accepted risk scores are moderate.

The local obstetrical program is supported by both family medicine physicians and OBGYNs.  Canmore General Hospital delivers 250 babies per year; epidural uptake is 67%.  Elective and emergency C-Sections comprise close to 50% of total deliveries (about 30% in the last 3 years).  Response time to E0 C-Sections is no more than 20 minutes.

The current rota is 21 days.  Each of the 3 anesthetists have 5 elective days and 7 call days.  Each elective day is also after hours call day.  There is one weekend call in the 21 day call cycle.  The department is small and collegiality is vital to its function.

The successful applicant must reside in and have their primary residence within the community of Canmore.

We're passionate about what we do.  Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care every day, across the Calgary Zone.  We are an equal opportunity employer.  AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging, and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.