Are you looking for an exciting career in rural medicine?

The Sioux Lookout region is currently recruiting contract and locum family physicians to come and join our team. As a rural family physician, you will work in a variety of settings that can include rural and remote clinic work, ER, hospitalist, and other areas. Your first time in the region must be for a minimum of three weeks for you to receive the full scope of opportunities we have to offer. In your first three-week period you will have two full days of orientation within the practice and region.

Sioux Lookout

The Sioux Lookout area has a population of approximately 5839 people and is the main hub for 31 remote First Nations communities north of Sioux Lookout. Many of the northern communities are only accessible by air, with populations ranging 32,000 people. Sioux Lookout is known as the “Hub of the North” as we are a lead provider of multiple services including healthcare.

Our beautiful, fully-accredited Meno Ya Win Health Centre has 60 beds, operating room theatres, occupational and physical therapy, dieticians, and diagnostic imaging services on site. The hospital employs general surgeons, anesthetists, and receives regular specialist support from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. Our physicians provide consult services (when not in a community) via phone to experienced nurses stationed in each northern community’s medical center.

There are exciting and unique opportunities to practice rural family medicine in the Sioux Lookout region. You can travel and work in remote First Nations communities, enjoying the outdoors, the arts, community events, and much more while earning income.

Remuneration information

Family physicians who provide contract/locum coverage will be reimbursed on a per diem basis. A typical work week consists of a 45-hour schedule, plus the opportunity to provide various on-call services. All remuneration is based on a pre-set fee schedule. Locums also qualify for HFO’s Rural Family Medicine Locum program (RFMLP).

If this opportunity interests you, please get in touch today!