Medical Health Services
Our services are free of charge to all StFX students. If you are a Canadian citizen, please have your provincial health card available. International students, please have your health insurance information available.
How to book a medical appointment
For any medical-related concerns, your first appointment will be an Intake Assessment with one of our Nurses. When booking these appointments online, choose the “Medical Intake” option, either virtual or in-person. The Nurse will speak with you privately about your health concern, and after carefully listening and evaluating your needs she will recommend appropriate follow-up service(s) in our clinic and/or other community-based or online resources. This may include an appointment with a physician or a specialized nurse. Appointments for seasonal flu vaccines and immunization forms can be booked directly without an Intake Assessment.
First time booking? See general information about booking appointments.
Medical services offered
Communicating with you
How to access our services
General information about booking appointments
- All students must register with Pomelo before they can book their appointments online. Please register for Pomelo here.
- Once you have registered for Pomelo, you can book appointments here.
- Each weekday morning Mental Health Same Day appointments open at 7:30 am.
- Time zone. You will receive an email reminder for a booked appointment. Please check carefully for the time zone indicated in your reminder. The correct time for your appointment is Nova Scotia time, Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) or Atlantic Standard Time (AST); it is NOT the time zone of your home province.
- For assistance, please call us at 902-867-2263 during office hours.
How to cancel an appointment
- If you need to cancel your appointment, you have several options: 1) cancel in Pomelo, 2) call 902-867-2263, 3) stop by the Health and Counselling Centre, or 4) email @email.
- If you wish to cancel a scheduled appointment, we require 24 hours notification prior to your scheduled appointment time. If your appointment is with a Nurse or a Doctor, you will be charged a late fee of $50.00. Cancelling your appointment allows us to offer that space to another student who needs it.
Confidentiality
Please note that the services you receive at the Health and Counselling Centre are confidential. We do not release information to your parents, your professors or anyone else without your permission or unless legally required to do so.
For more information please see our Confidentiality Statement and information on the Personal Health Information Act.
Contact
305 Bloomfield Centre
5555 Union Place
Antigonish NS B2G 2W5
Canada
If you are experiencing an emergency, the following resources are available 24/7:
- Proceed to St. Martha’s Regional Hospital Emergency Department (25 Bay Street) or your nearest hospital emergency department.
- Call 911
- NS Mental Health Crisis Line: 1-888-429-8167
- Suicide Crisis Helpline: 988
- Good2TalkNS (mental health counselling): 1-833-292-3698
- Crisis Text Line: Text GOOD2TALKNS to 686868
