Job Responsibilities
- Carry out daily clinical rounds, clinics or visits in assigned area/s by reviewing patients’ condition and ordering treatment and investigations as required.
- Attend to new admissions or referrals by reviewing patients’ referral notes, taking a comprehensive history, performing physical examinations and interviewing family members (as appropriate).
- Carry out rounds with visiting consultants, and to consider/carry out their recommendations as appropriate.
- Perform clinical procedures e.g. suturing, venepuncture, setting up IV lines, catheterization.
- Participate in Patient Care Conference (also known as multidisciplinary meetings), and contribute to the multidisciplinary care and/or discharge planning of patients. This may include screening and referring patients to other services such as specialist, senior care centres, day rehabilitation centres, Home Nursing Services and/or Home Medical Services.
- Attend to emergencies in the assigned area/s.
- Do exit rounds (in-patient setting) and to hand over to the doctor on-call.
- Do 1st Line on-call (sleep-in) or stay-out calls as scheduled.
- Cover the duties of the other doctors when on night duty, and during their leave.
- Keep abreast of development in medical practices.
- Participate and contribute towards teaching and training sessions.
- Participate in research work under the supervision of senior doctors.
- Participate in committee work, project(s) as directed by the Medical Director.
Job Requirements
- Possess a Medical Degree recognized by and fully/conditional/temporary registered with the Singapore Medical Council, with relevant post-graduate training in relevant disciplines such as Internal, Rehabilitation, Geriatric, Palliative and Family Medicine.
- Basic post-graduate medical degree acceptable as specialist qualification, e.g. Member of Royal College of Physician and Masters in Family Medicine.
- Possess 2 to 8 years of post-qualification experience.
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