Press releases

CPE Innovation Award 2025
October 28, 2025

Nova Scotia’s Physician Assessment Centre of Excellence receives innovation award

Nova Scotia's Physician Assessment Centre of Excellence (PACE) is this year’s recipient of the Innovation in Physician Assessment and Remediation Award
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August 1, 2025

Re: Professional duties to WCB patients

Primary care physicians are contacting the College with questions regarding their professional obligations to treat patients with workplace injuries. Amidst...
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June 27, 2025

Welcoming Lebanese-trained family physicians to Nova Scotia

The Province and Lebanese American University in Beirut have signed a memorandum of agreement outlining a five-year pilot program that...
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June 18, 2025

Update on applications to PACE for internationally trained physicians

The Physician Assessment Centre of Excellence (PACE) is a dedicated assessment centre and medical clinic designed to evaluate internationally trained...
February 6, 2025

Physician Assessment Centre of Excellence (PACE) website now available

Welcome to PACE, the Physician Assessment Centre of Excellence. PACE is unique, with a hybrid mission to assess internationally trained...
January 29, 2025

Dr. Gus Grant awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia is pleased to announce the King Charles III Coronation Medal has...
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April 5, 2024

Re: Amendments to the Personal Health Information Act

With the passing of the Financial Measures Act, the government now has authority to make regulations requiring physicians to disclose...
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March 25, 2024

College raises concerns regarding changes to PHIA

The government is moving forward with changes to the Personal Health Information Act (PHIA). Once enacted, physicians (and all other...
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