HALIFAX–SOUTH SHORE

The South Shore is known for its charming small-town atmosphere and vibrant community life. Explore the towns of Lunenburg, Bridgewater, and Liverpool, each offering its own unique charm and character, from distinctive architecture and vibrant local shops to stunning waterfront views. Halifax provides a bustling urban experience with its lively waterfront, cultural attractions, and lively dining scene.

  • A wealth of artisans, restaurants, shops, and galleries

  • Fresh, local seafood, and beautiful beaches

  • Home of the Bluenose and Bluenose II, Nova Scotia's sailing ambassador

  • Whale watching, boating, kayaking, and sailing

  • Picturesque towns

8,500

BRIDGEWATER POPULATION

2,500

LIVERPOOL POPULATION

2,100

LUNENBURG POPULATION

The South Shore offers a captivating blend of coastal beauty, rich maritime heritage, and charming towns.

Halifax-South Shore Program

Enjoy new experiences and travel? The South Shore Site offers the most diversity in the program with a chance to live in different communities and experience family medicine with a variety of supervisors.

Residents will spend up to approximately half of their training each year in the South Shore area (Lunenburg, Bridgewater, and Liverpool). Core Family Medicine clinical learning experiences are completed in the South Shore area, as well as some specialty services.

The strength of the family medicine rotation is the opportunity to work on a multi-disciplinary team. Residents work in a collegial and stimulating atmosphere on one of the teams that includes family physicians, family practice nurses, and a variety of other health care professionals .

  • Explore the Maritimes during your residency

  • Hospital sites include QEII Health Science Centre, IWK Health Centre, South Shore Regional Hospital, Queen’s General Hospital, Fisherman’s Memorial Hospital, and Dartmouth General Hospital

  • Residents develop their own panel of patients throughout the core family medicine

  • PGY1 residents care for a panel of patients in a long-term care facility

Salary range of $69,867 – $75,527 per annum

Residents will complete rotations throughout the South Shore (Lunenburg, Bridgewater, and Liverpool)

Residents develop their own panel of patients throughout core family medicine

Salary and benefits

During your residency in the South Shore area, as with all our residency sites, your salary will be very competitive.

$69,867 – $75,527

PGY1 - PGY2 SALARY AMOUNTS

The curriculum

PGY1 residents at the Halifax-South Shore site start residency with a four-week orientation block in Halifax called Foundations in Family Medicine. This is an opportunity to ease into residency in a supportive learning environment. There is a mix of clinical experiences, didactic teaching, simulation, workshops and buddy call with a senior resident.

While on core Family Medicine in PGY2, residents have the opportunity to regularly participate in primary care obstetrics, procedural clinics, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and duty clinics.

Some of the strengths of the South Shore program are:

  • Dedicated family medicine faculty with a variety of clinical and academic interests

  • Strong primary health care research division in Halifax

  • Multi-disciplinary team approach to care

  • Experience in primary care obstetrics with a strong family practice obstetrics group in Bridgewater

  • Hospitalist and emergency medicine experiences to prepare residents in providing full-service care in their communities

  • Obstetrical simulation sessions

  • Procedural training

  • Long term care experience

Clinical experiences

PGY1 ROTATIONS

  • Core family medicine

  • Internal medicine

  • General surgery

  • Selective (orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, sports medicine, addictions and ER)

  • Pediatrics

  • Obstetrics / gynecology

  • Emergency medicine

  • Family medicine orientation block

  • Hospitalist medicine unit

PGY2 ROTATIONS

  • Core family medicine

  • Community family medicine

  • Critical care (CCU, ICU, IMCU, Hospitalist)

  • Geriatrics

  • Psychiatry

  • Palliative care

  • Electives

To cross reference and compare the sites in our program, find more information by clicking below.

Sound like a good fit?

If you want to learn more about a residency in the South Shore, get in touch. Our staff would be happy to answer all of your questions.

Site Director 
Dr. Susan Ripley
hfxfmsd@dal.ca

Assistant Site Director
Dr. Tarah Millen
tarah.millen@dal.ca

Associate Resident
Dr. Michael Coldwell
mc423899@dal.ca

Site Administrator
fmresidency.halifax@dal.ca
(902) 473-4744