Welcome

Welcome to PACE, the Physician Assessment Centre of Excellence. PACE is unique, with a hybrid mission to assess internationally trained physicians for licensure in Nova Scotia while also providing high quality primary care.

Access to care is the dominant issue in our province’s healthcare system. Present efforts to expand Canadian medical training will take time. Through PACE, Nova Scotia will add more safe, competent physicians now.

If you are a patient, PACE will be your Health Home. Your care will be delivered by carefully selected, internationally trained physicians, whose training and work experience have been thoroughly reviewed. Your care will be overseen by fully licensed physicians trained in the science of physician assessment by the Medical Council of Canada. While the faces of your physicians will change over time, you can remain a patient of PACE long term. To repeat, PACE will be your Health Home.

By agreeing to join PACE, you are helping Nova Scotia welcome and onboard new physicians. You are an important part of a solution to our access to care crisis. Thank you for coming to PACE.