Medical Service Provider

A career in medicine requires a professional approach with patients, staff and visitors. As a Medical Officer, you will be expected to work within your level of experience and competence, highlighting all orders given by consultants and their team members while taking care of patients in wards.

The role involves providing medical cover, routine and emergency, during hours of duty and working in conjunction with other Medical Officers to provide a 24-hour service to the hospital.

• Evaluate patient admissions by taking complete history and performing pertinent physical examinations, documenting all findings in the HMIS system.
• Undertake morning, evening and night ward rounds daily, ensuring patients are visited where appropriate and recording progress and any event in the HMIS system accordingly.
• Seek advice from senior team members in cases regarding patient health and receive handover reports on patients from alternative RMO/SMO, attending ward areas preferably within an hour when commencing duty in all shifts.
• Provide pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative care for admitted patients, managing laboring patients and performing vaginal deliveries including vacuum deliveries as per residency/competency level and defined supervision.
• Assess and manage patients in the ER, liaising with nursing staff regularly to check on patient progress or more frequently if their condition necessitates.

1. To adopt a professional approach with all patients, staff and visitors.
2. To work within your level of experience and competence and highlight verbally and in writing, all the orders given by consultants and their team members while taking care of patients in wards.
3. To provide medical cover, routine and emergency, during hours of duty.
4. To evaluate the patients admitted to the ward by taking complete history and performing pertinent physical examination and to document all above in the HMIS.
5. To undertake morning, evening and night ward round daily and if possible with a member of the nursing staff when available ensuring patients are visited where appropriate.
6. To record the progress and any event of the patient in HMIS system accordingly following ward rounds or any other patient examinations, communication or procedures.
7. To seek advice from the senior team member in any case regarding patients health.
8. To receive a hand over report on patients from the alternative RMO/SMO and to attend the ward areas preferably within an hour when commencing the duty in all shifts.
9. To provide pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative care for the admitted patients.
10. To manage laboring pts and perform vaginal deliveries including vacuum deliveries as per their residency/competency level and defined supervision.
11. To assess and manage pts in ER .All the complicated antenatal pts should be assessed by SMO and endorsed by specialist on call before the decision of admission or Discharge is made.
12. To undertake within their level of experience and competence certain medical procedures advised by the Consultant.
13. To liaise with nursing staff regularly to check on patient progress, or more frequently if their condition necessitates.
14. To see patients at the request of nurses in charge and carry out examinations of patients accordingly.
15. To discuss medication on discharge with patients and write a discharge summary on discharging of patient.
16. All patient's medical information is confidential and must be respected at all levels. Medical Officer shall not leak information at any cost.
17. To provide urgent medical attention and urgent treatment to staff or visitors in case of accident or sudden illness in liaison with medical team.
18. To remain on the hospital premises whilst on duty. In the event of an RMO/SMO not attending for duty, the previous MO must remain until a replacement is found ensuring continuous cover.
19. To comply with all hospital policies and procedures in particular those relating to Health and Safety at Work.
20. Effective interpersonal relationships will be maintained with staff and patients and families.