Alberta Health Services (AHS)-Edmonton Zone is pleased to offer various opportunities for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) and Foreign Trained Physicians. These programs are managed by the Physician Preceptorship Program office within Medical Affairs. Please click on the links below for more information.
In AHS-Edmonton Zone, clinical opportunities for IMGs are typically two- to six-month clinical preceptorships within a specific clinical service. Following the preceptorship period, a formal evaluation is completed to determine if pre-defined program specific clinical learning objectives have been met. Successful candidates are then eligible to be offered positions as Clinical Assistants or Surgical Assistants. Opportunities for IMGs with AHS-Edmonton Zone do not result in full licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta nor independent practice opportunities.
Clinical Assistants and Surgical Assistants in AHS-Edmonton Zone work under the supervision and direction of licensed physicians in AHS-Edmonton Zone facilities.
- Clinical Assistants generally provide acute care coverage on nights and weekends and manage patients admitted to a service by assessing patient progress and responding to patient medical needs as they arise over the course of the shift. In consultation with the attending physician, Clinical Assistants will, for example, perform patient interviews, histories and physical examinations, perform selected diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and interpret patient laboratory and radiological results. More generally, Clinical Assistants collaborate with other health care team members in the provision of patient care.
- Surgical-Clinical Assistants provide acute care coverage services in the role of a clinical assistant to in-hospital surgical patients. The Surgical-Clinical Assistant's duties include (but are not limited to) pre-op consultation, pre- and post-op co-morbidity management of surgical patients, management of post-op complications, and consultations in the emergency department, as well as serving as an assistant to the operating surgeon during the intraoperative phase of surgery.
- Surgical Assistants serve as an assistant to the operating surgeon during the intraoperative phase of surgery.
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