The Welcome Collaborative is a new orientation program to help arriving physicians who have trained outside of Canada integrate successfully into the Nova Scotian healthcare system and to life in Nova Scotia...[...]
The College’s Council is the governing board of the College. The Council includes physician members elected by physicians and public members appointed by the College through a nominations process...[...]
The College recently revised its prescribing standard to address prescribing in the absence of direct patient contact. The standard was reviewed in response to physician living the U.S. and holding a Nova Scotian licence allegedly was prescribing thousands of Ozempic prescriptions for diversion to American patients...[...]
While the medical record is the property of a physician, patients are entitled to the contents of their medical records. This right endures after the physician-patient relationship ends, regardless of whether the ending is planned or unexpected...[...]