Job Objective/Purpose
To provide overall clinical leadership and governance as well as clinical care in the department of clinical medicine.
Key Responsibilities
1.Conduct Physician outpatient clinics in line with the hospital schedules and attend to both walk-in and referred patients.
- Attend to all patients who require physician review within hospital standard operating procedures, national and internationally guidelines.
- Conducting timely ward rounds/patient reviews for all internal medicine patients in the hospital, in line with the hospital standard operating procedures, national, and international treatment guidelines.
- Accurate and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
- Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out and interpretation of the results and ensure update to the patients and the next of kin.
- Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, and discharges.
- Counsel clients on treatment and compliance to treatment (patient and family) while ensuring their participation in decision making in their management.
- Carry out procedures and surgical interventions as per authorized/licensed privileges while ensuring high quality of care/services and safety of patients.
- Conduct family conferences in line with hospital standard operating procedures
- Participate in morbidity and mortality audits and meetings.
- Participation in incident reporting, root cause analysis and Quality Improvement Plan
- Participate in the continuous review and improvement of departmental standard operating procedures
- Facilitate Continuous Medical Education, mentorship, and skills training to colleagues
- Acquiring new skills on best practices and proactively facilitate implementation.
- Maintain a positive work attitude and foster teamwork.
- Always maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
- Ensure patient satisfaction through quality of care, communication, feedback and escalation and demonstrate follow-up and improvement.
Personal Specifications
Be a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery
Be a holder of Masters in internal Medicine
Specialist recognition in internal medicine
Fellowship in Cardiology/endocrinology/Nephrology
Minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience.
Customer focused and with excellent communication
Results oriented and research skills
Excellent interpersonal and a team player
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