Medical Officer at Vedic Lifecare Hospital

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Job Responsibilities

• Managing appropriately all patients as necessary.
• Ensuring that patients understand all treatments and procedures while providing health care.
• Taking care and advising the patients referred by other hospital specialist colleagues.
• Ensure that referrals are attended to promptly by carrying out appropriate investigations and treatments & issuing a discharge summary to every patients prior to leaving the hospital.
• Referring patients to other hospitals recognized by Vedic Lifecare Hospital concerning patient diagnostics or rehabilitation with best medical practice.
• Evaluating selected medical records of patients, case notes and discharge letters of patients at peer review.
• Providing reports, contributing to developing, budgeting, and planning of medical services.
• All cases should be documented as per the requirements of the organization.
• Taking part in medical audits as required from time to time to monitor care delivery.
• Ensure that the in and out of your unit is clean at all times to keep it free from infection.
• Keep all equipment clean, functional and safe for use always, and ensure that the Bio-Medical Engr. carries out routine checks on them.
• Ensure judicious use of consumables and keep a stock of consumables against the number of tests done.
• In case of emergency follow emergency protocols / SOPs.
• Explain to patients on preventive healthcare services & promote health checks considering the challenges of the place.
• Maintain patient details, case sheets and diagnostic results of guests in electronic medical records without fail.

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess a MBBS / MBChB qualification with 2-10 years work experience.