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The Welcome Collaborative’s next 3-day orientation session is April 11-13, 2023 at the offices of the College.

The Welcome Collaborative is a new orientation program designed to help physicians who have trained outside of Canada and issued a Defined licence, to integrate successfully into the Nova Scotian healthcare system.

For more information, please contact the College at: welcomecollaborative@cpsns.ns.ca

American Board-certified physicians are now eligible for Full Licensure in Nova Scotia, without the requirement for Royal College certification. Nova Scotia is the first province to do so.

The College will also accept enrolment in the relevant continuing professional development (CPD) program in the United States in lieu of the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program with the Royal College or the Mainpro+ program with the College of Family Physicians of Canada…

International Women’s Day on March 8th celebrates the achievements of women while raising awareness about discrimination and inviting us to action to drive gender parity.

Of the 2,923 physicians licensed to practise in the province this year 44% or 1,273 are women. The College recognizes and celebrates the tremendous contribution and leadership of women physicians in Nova Scotia.

The College is pleased to announce the launch of the Atlantic Register on May 1, 2023.  The Register will be available to all physicians in an Atlantic province licensed to practise without conditions, restrictions, undertakings or supervision. Physicians who wish to opt onto the Atlantic Register will do so by advising their home College and providing their consent. The annual cost is $500.00 and replaces all fees associated with temporary or locum licences. Physicians on the Atlantic Register can practise throughout the region as of right.  The creation of the Atlantic Register is the result of a collaboration over several months…

The College commemorates African Heritage Month with this year’s theme of Seas of Struggle – African Peoples from Shore to Shore. We honour the contributions of African Nova Scotians throughout their rich and complex history in the province dating back over 400 years. While the College recognizes that much work remains to be done to address anti-black racism within our healthcare system, we commend the leadership of African Nova Scotian physicians across Nova Scotia.

The Welcome Collaborative  is a new orientation program designed to help physicians who have trained outside of Canada and issued a Defined licence, to integrate successfully into the Nova Scotian healthcare system.

The Welcome Collaborative developed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia will help welcome and settle 140 doctors trained outside of Canada over the next three years. The orientation program aims to address gaps in the onboarding experience of these newly licensed physicians.

A new orientation program that will help welcome and settle 140 doctors trained outside of Canada over the next three years will soon launch in Nova Scotia.

“We need more healthcare providers, and we are working hard to welcome those who have trained outside Canada but want to make Nova Scotia their home,” said Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson.

A new online medical records keeping course is now available through Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. The primary purpose of the medical record is to enable all health care providers to provide quality health care to their patients.

The medical record contributes to the quality, continuity and assessment of patient care. This new online course was designed to provide information on standards of care in medical record keeping as well as guidelines on documentation, including useful tools to facilitate the proper flow of information in all aspects of care.