If you are interested in working in Inuvik, you need to have Canadian license in another province or territory. If this is the case, please call or write to Leanne Goose, the physician recruiter in Inuvik at 867 777 8108 or inuvik_doctors@gov.nt.ca.

Our office does not look after licensing and credentialing – that is all done through Yellowknife. We do arrange you travel and accommodation.

Information is not shared between the Licensing and Credentialing bodies. The offices are not in close physical proximity and are completely separate entities. It may save time to complete the application packages simultaneously as they sometimes require similar information. The NWT Credentials Committee requires three references and the Registrar of Professional Licensing requires three references.  It may be easier to ask three references to fill out two forms each (one for each licensing body).

1.    LICENSE

In order to obtain a NWT Medical License physicians need to submit:
    •    An application form
    •    Up-to-Date CV
    •    3 reference letters
   •  A letter of good standing from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the province physician is currently licensed in
    •    Proof of degrees and citizenship.

Send application to:
Registrar, Professional Licensing
Department of Health and Social Services
Government of the NWT
Box 1320
Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9
Phone:  (867) 920-8058
Fax:    (867) 873-0484
E-mail: professional_licensing@gov.nt.ca
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2. PRIVILEGES

The Government of the Northwest Territories requires that all hospitals in the NWT use the NWT Credentials Committee to offer recommendations on physician hospital privileges.  Because the NWT Credentials Committee is based in the Stanton Territorial Hospital, in Yellowknife, the forms all have the Stanton Logo or name on them.

To acquire your hospital privileges you will need to submit the following:
    •    Application for Appointment to the Medical Staff
   •  List of Privileges pertaining to type of practice/s applying for (the forms can be found online)
    •    Up-to-Date CV
    •    NWT License/Permit to Practice
    •    CMPA Certificate “Membership Update”
    •    Three (3) Letters of Reference

Please fax all documents listed above to: (867) 669-4218


Or mail to:


Medical Affairs Department,

Stanton Territorial Health Authority

Box 10, (550 Byrne Road),

Yellowknife, NT
X1A 2N1


For more information call (867) 669-4102

Inuvik is a town of approximately 3,300 people lying 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. The population is a mixture of Inuit, First Nations and southern people. Additional information about the Town of Inuvik can be found at the town's website.

The Inuvik Regional Hospital is a fully accredited acute care and long term care facility that was completed in April 2003. There are 14 inpatient beds, 2 labour and delivery beds, 3 special care beds and 4 day surgery beds. We have about 10 to 15 patients in at any time.

The Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority draws on an additional population of 7,000 people in 7 outlying communities, some as far away as 600 km, in an area more than 500,000 square kilometers. Community Health Nurses provide primary care in each outlying community. All doctors usually visit one community per month (3 to 4 days in the communities, approximately 20 patients per day).

Inuvik physicians provide a broad range of general practice services from minor to major illnesses, including unusual diseases like botulism. We also stabilize seriously ill patients until the patient can be medevac’d to Yellowknife or Edmonton. We deliver approximately 120 babies per year. Surgery consists of c-sections, appendectomies, tubal ligations, ectopic pregnancies, fractures, dislocations, reductions, vasectomies and other minor procedures. Visiting specialists do bigger gynecological and surgical cases. These specialists come from Yellowknife and Edmonton for three or four days every three months and include general surgeons, ENT’s, internists and neurologists. A psychiatrist visits monthly and pediatricians visit bi-monthly.

Medical staff consists of 9 physicians. We try to have a GP anesthetist and a GP surgeon on staff at all times. When this is not possible, we enlist semi-retired surgeons, obstetricians and anesthetists to do locums in order to provide expertise and a break for our GPA and GPS. When in Inuvik, physicians do morning and afternoon clinics: patients are booked every quarter hour from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a one-hour lunch break. Early mornings, 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., are spent at the hospital in following-up in-patients or perfecting airway and anesthesia skills in the OR. Our backup is legendary: help is only a phone call and two minutes away.