Job Description
Education: Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry.
Work setting: Clinic. Medical clinic.
Responsibilities
- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
- Examine patients' health condition to identify diseases and injuries.
- Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures to determine the most appropriate medical treatment.
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health.
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments.
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases.
- Advise patients on health care.
- Conduct disease screening.
- Diagnose patients' diseases and disorders.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
Licensure by provincial or territorial a...