Resident Physician

Avenue Hospital was founded in 1995 for the purpose of managing the outpatient department at the Hospital, and to extend medical services to corporate clientele through an innovative concept of Managed Healthcare.

Resident Physician

Main Purpose of the Job- (Job Summary)

To provide overall clinical leadership and governance as well as clinical care in the department of clinical medicine. He or she will be expected to be an active member of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team in the hospital and to contribute to the continuing professional development programs.

Main 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.

• Participation in incident reporting, root cause analysis and Quality Improvement Plan.

• Participate in the continuous review and improvement of departmental standard operating procedures.