Rural Healthcare

After graduation, I started off as a staff pharmacist, providing patient care and practising to my full scope of practice. I learned a lot from my boss at the time, as well as from the other pharmacists and staff I was working with. Then the pandemic hit.

Rural pharmacy is poised to be the perfect opportunity for the expanded scope pharmacist.

The astrophysics and aerospace engineering departments are not getting all the fun as Canadian medical schools embark on space-related research.

The decision to close the ER for two months follows a series of short-notice, temporary closures.

Pearls you can use in your practice now!

Announced in February, only 18 applications have come through, and only one doc has a set start-date for a much-needed rural residency.

For more than two years, Eastern Memorial Hospital (EMH) in Canso has faced frequent emergency department closures due to lack of physician and/or nursing coverage.

The hospital, located about 40 kilometres south of Ottawa, says the ER will resume 24-hour operations Tuesday at 7 a.m.