Resident Physician at Avenue Healthcare

Job Objective/Purpose

To provide overall clinical leadership and governance as well as clinical care in the department of clinical medicine.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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