Medical Doctor at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - French

Location: Miduguri, Borno
Contract: Daily worker pool

Job Description
Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment respecting MSF protocols.
• Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood.
• Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients, through daily visits , consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem or complication of the patients illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
• Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures professional confidentiality is respected.
• Manage the team under his/her direct responsibility according to MSF HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls if necessary
• Active participation in the weekly presentations of medical topics for continous medical education
• Active participation in the mortality reveiws
• Ensuring knowledge of updated MSF protocols, policies and guidelines
• Active participation in other project activities and meetings.
• Follows the referral procedure, adhering to MSF referral guidelines, and validating all referrals to the medical activity manager
• Participate in the morning medical meeting and ensure handover is done before leaving the service
• Participate to the development of reforms in working strategies.

Requirements
Education:    

• Medical Doctor diploma, Desirable diploma in Tropical Medicine (For OCB  OCBA Tropical Medicine Is essential).

Experience:

• Medical Doctor diploma Desirable diploma in Tropical Medicine (For OCB  OCBA Tropical Medicine Is essential).
• 2 years experience minimum as a Medical Doctor/General practitioner in clinical work (consultations, admissions, ward rounds, lab tests request and results interpretation). Desirable in tropical medicine, experience in pediatrics (Triage, Resuscitation, ICU, IPD, SAM, Infectious Diseases).

Language:

• Fluency in English (Read, Speak and Write), Hausa (Speak), Kanuri required.
• Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel, Internet).
• Results and Quality Orientation L2
• Team work and Cooperation L2
• Behavioural Flexibility L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles L2
• Stress Management .

Remuneration

• NGN 2673 Per Hour