Clinical Associate (SACH - Inpatient)

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.

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