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Digby Area Healthcare Engagement is a recruitment and retention initiative dedicated to bringing the healthcare community together.

We strive to connect talented professionals with healthcare organizations in our area, assist with their relocations and welcome them to our thriving healthcare community.

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Digby Area Healthcare Engagement is a recruitment and retention initiative dedicated to bringing the healthcare community together.

We strive to connect talented professionals with healthcare organizations in our area, assist with their relocations and welcome them to our thriving healthcare community.

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FINDING THAT WORK-LIFE BALANCE
SEE YOURSELF IN DIGBY AREA

If you are embarking on a new journey or seeking a fresh opportunity, the Digby Area of Nova Scotia offers a nurturing environment for healthcare practitioners to flourish.

Whether you are new to the area or have lived here your entire life, we strive to assist our healthcare community in feeling at home. We are happy to assist healthcare professionals of all kinds fall in love with the Digby Area and are here to help them navigate our community.

We love to engage with the community with fun events, meet and greets, family activities and more!

ATTENTION HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN THE DIGBY AREA!

The Digby Area Healthcare Engagement in partnership with the Western Regional Enterprise Network’s Local Immigration Partnership are conducting a survey to better understand the challenges and needs of healthcare workers in the Digby region.

We want to know what supports are needed to enhance support and well-being of healthcare workers, from doctors, nurses and CCAs to paramedics, pharmacy and janitorial staff.

Whether you work in a hospital or a private facility, we need to hear from you!Please fill out this survey.

It’s about 10 minutes long and completely confidential.

TESTIMONIALS
Dr. Eric Balser
Family Physician
Digby is a special place. Historic, beautiful, progressive and friendly. Quiet but busy community in the off-season. Booming busy with visitors in the spring and summer.
Home of one of the largest scallop fishing fleets in the world. Lots of fresh lobster. Very interesting, small, hard-working town. There are lots of opportunities for taking part in community activities. This town has three summer festivals – Lobster Bash, Scallop Days and the uniquely interesting Wharf Rat Rally!
Practising primary care here is challenging but fulfilling. The Digby Primary Care Clinic has created an innovative and patient-based model of care. No one is assigned a specific provider. We are constantly working on enhancing our collaborative processes. We want patients to be able to see the right person at the right time as soon as needed. It is working!!
The community is very appreciative as there has been a “doctor shortage” here for decades. Take it from me: Digby is a fine place to be. I grew up here, graduated from high school, and now am helping my community get and stay healthy!
Joey Silburt
Medical Student
Digby was an amazing place to learn to practice health care; I cannot speak highly enough about the people of Digby and the hospitality they showed me throughout my rotation.
The team at the Digby General Hospital was supportive and always willing to teach, offering me varied hands-on clinical experience.
Moreover, Nancy, the community navigator, made moving to Digby easy, and I was able to spend my rotation in a spacious apartment with a stunning ocean view.
I also enjoyed exploring the scenic town and its surroundings, visiting the famous scallop fleet, hiking along the cliffs, and sampling the local cuisine.

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We’d love to hear from you!Nova Scotia continues to create new practice opportunities for internationally trained physicians through expedited licensure pathways. American Board-certified physicians now have a pathway for full licensure in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Health Physician Recruitment looks forward to continuing to build connections in the US with a focus on primary care, emergency medicine and internal medicine specialties.

Why choose Nova Scotia? Join us in offering top-tier healthcare in one of Canada's most beautiful provinces. Explore the opportunities today and connect with our recruitment team to learn more: nshdocs.morethanmedicine.ca/your-path-practice-nova-scotia-canada


Welcoming internationally trained physicians is just one of the ways that Nova Scotia Health is working to bring the best in healthcare to our province. Read the full, newly released Physician Recruitment Strategy and learn about the innovative approaches being used to attract and retain top medical talent to Nova Scotia: nshdocs.morethanmedicine.ca/sites/default/files/2024-09/NSHealth_PhysicianRecruitmentStrategy2024....
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We’d love to hear from you!

Our province is on a journey to become more inclusive and equitable. This will be done by looking through policies and procedures that could have an effect of disadvantaging underrepresented and underserved groups.

We need YOUR help! No one knows our communities better than the people who live and work in them. We ask that you please take some time to fill out our community engagement survey.

We need your valuable insights, perspectives, and ideas that can enrich and strengthen our action plans.

To view the survey, please visit our website:
digbymun.ca/engagement-survey.html
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