What work experience is necessary for practising in a remote region?
Solid and diversified experience in pediatrics, obstetrics, traumatology, infectious diseases, community health, etc. are all useful. I often recommend that candidates join a floating team for at least one year to become familiar with all of the departments. The daily reality of work in Nunavik can include a major emergency involving multiple trauma, a child of five months in isolation for an invasive meningococcus infection, a parturient patient with dilation of four centimetres in active labour and requiring ante-partum follow-up and preparation for delivery, and so forth. You will always work with a colleague in 12-hour shifts, and there is always a nurse on duty for the delivery room.
