Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members.

Position Overview

Calian Health is seeking an Aerospace Physician Specialist interested in providing medical services to Canadian Armed Forces members in their exclusive outpatient clinic located Toronto, ON. The Specialist in Aerospace Medicine is part of a health care team that provides higher level consultation and advice to military primary care physicians and senior medical advisors in addition to the clinical assessment and care of military personnel within the Canadian Forces Environmental Medicine Establishment’s (CFEME). They also have a role in providing advice to CAF medical policymakers regarding personnel selection, personnel retention, and support to military operations, perform research, and deliver instruction on Aerospace Medicine courses.

Responsibilities

• Provide Aerospace Medicine specialty services by conducting medical examinations and file reviews on referred patients and completing medical documentation that may include medical employment limitations, diagnosis, medical recommendations;
• Maintain patient health records, including the use of CFHIS to receive and respond to consults;
• Review and perform initial aircrew medical examination in accordance with AMA Directive 100-01 and 1 Canadian Air Division Flight Surgeon Guidelines;
• Review aircrew medical cases and make recommendations to the Aerospace and Undersea Medical Board (AUMB) on questions of aircrew medical fitness in accordance with AMA Directive 100-01 and 1 Canadian Air Division Flight Surgeon Guidelines;
• Provide higher level advice to primary care physicians who have operational flight surgeon training and who routinely care for aircrew where they operate;
• Provide Aerospace Medicine input, advice, and recommendations to AUMB regarding the formulation of policies that govern medical fitness to fly, diagnostic criteria, and treatment guidelines for aerospace related disorders;
• Participate in meetings of the AUMB and other committees such as Aeromedical Policy and Standards Committee, Defence Research and Directorate of Medical Policy by providing Aerospace Medicine input and advice on patient files, Aerospace Medicine policies, diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines for aerospace related disorders. Participation in meetings may require travel;
• Provide medical screening and medical response for personnel participating in human centrifuge training as well as hypobaric chamber exposures
• Deliver specialist Aerospace Medicine subject matter expert level lectures at the School of Operational Medicine (SOM) in accordance with CF Health Services national training calendar (as provided by the Task Manager) e.g. Basic Aviation Medicine and Operational Flight Surgeon courses, each offered once per year

Qualifications

The Specialist in Aerospace Medicine Physician must, as a minimum:

• Possess a medical licence in good standing from the provincial or territorial regulatory organization in the province or territory of practice;
• Posses one or more of the following:
• Hold a current Advanced Cardiac Life Support certificate in accordance with the Heart and Stroke Foundation ACLS Provider program;
• The Aerospace Medicine Physician must, as a minimum, have provided at least 120 hours/year of clinical Aerospace Medicine in 5 of the last 10 years in Canada, the United States (U.S.), United Kingdom (U.K.), New Zealand (N.Z.) or Australia.

Additional Requirements

• You will be able to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level