Clinical Associate (SACH - Inpatient) - ST ANDREW'S MISSION HOSPITAL

Roles & Responsibilities

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

Tell employers what skills you have

Family Medicine

Teamwork

Hospitals

Collaboration

Teaching

Flexibility

Direct Patient Care

Public Health

Treatment

Healthcare

Medicine

Decisiveness

Rendering

Time Management

Communication Skills

IV

Screening

Initiative

Rehabilitation

Research