Senior Medical Officer at Blue Advisory

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Examine and record information on patients’ condition by sensitively gathering personal information such as family medical history.
• Gather and maintain patient information confidentially.
• Plan and prepare appropriate treatment packages for patients
• Recommend admission or referral of patients requiring additional and special care, investigation and treatment.
• Record and monitor patient conditions during every visit both as a tracking of past treatments/tests run and for referrals and cross-referrals with other doctors (internally and externally).
• Provide advice to patients for lifestyle and diet changes that may improve their health and prevent any illnesses/diseases.
• Liaise with other medical and non-medical staff in the clinic to ensure quality treatment and effective/efficient service delivery.
• Organise and coordinate preventative medical care programmes for individual patients, and presentations for clients.
• Meet targets set by the government for specific treatments such as child immunisation schedules.
• Manage resources to service patients as effectively as possible.
• Provide the best medical advice for the patient and refer them to a specialist such as the consultant family physician or eternal specialists for specific conditions such as diabetic patients or newborn babies.
• Keep up-to-date with medical developments such as new drugs in the market, new treatment methods and technological advancements to be discussed with the doctors and the Chief Medical Director.
• Discuss the development of new pharmaceutical products with the clinic’s pharmacist and accredited pharmaceutical sales representatives and give feedback to the Chief Medical Director.
• Offer health promotion and prevention activities within the clinic, for example, training all medical staff to use devices such as ECG machines and diabetes monitors.

Job Requirements

• A Medical degree from a reputable university
• Proof of current registration, certification or licensure by national and international regulatory bodies
• Minimum of 8 years relevant working experience 
• Post graduate degree in Family Medicine/Occupational Health/Public Health/Healthcare Management is desirable
• Ability to operate medical equipment such as the ECG machine
• Effectively and efficiently analyze data
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to carry out procedures such as wound dressing, checking blood pressure and other physical exams
• Possess sound knowledge in the health education industry and its market