Medical Officer, Family Medicine Clinic

Job Summary

Reporting to the Section Head, Family Medical Clinic, the Senior House/Medical Officer will provide quality patient-centered health care to patients and continuously evaluate and improve the quality of care provided by the institution to meet patient treatment goals.

Responsibilities

• Review and examine all patients consistently by performing such duties as taking case appropriate histories, conducting physical examinations and ordering relevant diagnostic tests.
• Attend to emergency patients in a timely and ensure effective handover to the Accident and Emergency teams.
• Liaise with residents, instructors and consultants, to ensure multidisciplinary care, continuity of care and appropriate referral.
• Initiate discussions with patient and care-givers to enable better diagnostic and therapeutic medical care and services.
• Conduct health promotion, wellness consultations, insurance assessments, pre-travel and preschool medical examinations.
• Participate in quality improvement, medical audits, process indicator management guidelines development and application.
• Participate in morbidity/mortality review preparation.
• Educate patients on wellness, prevention and early detection.
• Provide materials, resources and referrals to patients, family members/care givers.
• Educate patients on informed consent, choice of attending physician and right to seek second opinion.
• Initiate timely discussions with relevant consultants/departments to arrive at the best treatment plan for specialized cases.
• Work closely with members of the clinical care team to reduce errors and waste, improve skillfulness and resource utilization.
• Participate in departmental committees and internal business meetings.
• Participate in teaching of interns, elective students and nurses
• Encourage fellow SHOs to actively participate in research based activities, and assist the conferences registrar/resident in organizing for research-related activities.
• Organize for locally available data on prevalence and incidence of common ailments in AKUHN.
• Initiate discussions with consultants and colleagues to enable integration of clinical research activities, shared knowledge, institutional quality improvement and patient wellness activities.
• Participate in all team efforts as departmental needs arise.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.Ch.B).
• Registration by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
• A valid practicing license.
• A valid life support course certificate.
• 1-year post internship experience.
• Clinician traits of patience, compassion, responsibility, honesty, respect for others, self-awareness, logical thinking and intellectual curiosity.
• Good counseling and patient education skills.
• Ability to manage work-related stress and work with minimal supervision.