General Practitioner

Job Description

• Provides under the supervision of Associate Consultants (or higher level) consultations, examinations, and treatments including procedures with a full range of agents, methods, and techniques, observing quality and safety standards.
• Conducts rounds of inpatients under care to assess patients’ condition and treatment progress; develop treatment care plans; order treatment regimens; establish rapport with the patient and relatives; and answer patient’s queries. 
• Sees patients preoperatively to evaluate the patient’s condition and suitability before any procedure or surgery. Refers immediately to supervising consultant in case of complications.
• Reports the condition of patients under care to the supervising consultant for any technical assistance or to review the treatment regimen of the patient in case of an adverse reaction.
• Examine the patient post-operatively to assess complications, order further treatment, or referral to another specialty as indicated with information given to the supervising consultant.
• Participates in the T.Q.M. programs in collaboration with the T.Q.M. Department in which he/she must be an active participant of hospital-wide committees in a position designated or elected by committee members. 
• Provides continuing education, training, and demonstration by sharing new procedures and techniques to colleagues, nurses, and technicians assigned within the department in collaboration with Academic Affairs and Research Center.
• Attends to work and on-call schedules on time and performs duties completely before ending the shift.
• Endorses to the next shift any uncompleted task to be continued and/or completed.
• Responses to emergencies in the hospital without delay during on-call duty.
• Assists colleagues in the Department as required like taking care of patients as requested to ease loads during peak time. 
• Attends to scheduled or unscheduled meetings to discuss and resolve problems.