Health Link Family or Emergency Medicine Physician

Discover a new, flexible way of practicing medicine! The Health Link Virtual MD team needs physicians who can provide caring, astute virtual assessments and care.
 

Health Link is a free health service and information line for Albertans with non-emergency health inquiries.

 
You’ll use observation and listening skills, problem solving skills, and consultation skills to virtually assess patients and advise them on the most appropriate level of care to access, whether it’s visiting the emergency department, an urgent care centre, their primary care provider, or caring for their illness by themselves at home. In many cases this includes referrals to after-hours clinics and services, including some Primary Care Networks. As this is a virtual position, you can do this work from anywhere in the province. Read on for a full job description and to apply below.

Job Description:
  
As a Health Link Virtual MD, you will follow well-established guidelines to provide clinical services through comprehensive virtual primary care assessments, health promotion and patient education, and support chronic disease management and treatment. This includes a focused or comprehensive medical history, and as appropriate, a video-based physical exam. This exam may include general appearance, work-of-breathing, joint colour and range of motion, hydration status, mental status exam, ability to bear weight, activity level, extra-ocular movements, facial symmetry, and tremors, among other aspects of the physical exam. In this role, you will assess and triage a patient’s health care needs, i.e. virtually managing patient care as appropriate, directing patients to urgent care centres or emergency departments if clinically indicated, or directing patients to primary care including pharmacies as clinically appropriate, etc.

 
You will review relevant lab results and/or medical records as appropriate via Netcare and where available, AHS medical records such as Connect Care, capturing documentation of all clinical care and advice provided. There is also opportunity for interested physicians to work with the Outpatient COVID treatment program and Blood and Bodily Fluid Exposure arm of Virtual MD. This service involves assessing immunocompromised patients for Paxlovid/Remdesivir treatment, and HIV PEP follow up appointments for patients who have experienced a blood or bodily fluid exposure and are started on HIV PEP.

 
Virtual MD hours are between 0600 and 0200 daily and physician shifts are 3 hours in length. Physicians hired under this program can expect to work a minimum of four (4) shifts per month and to provide availability for shifts scheduled on evenings, nights and weekends.