Medical Consultant/Specialists at The Olive Multi-Specialist Hospital

Field of Professional:

• Cardiologist
• Pediatrician
• Obstetric and Gynecologist
• Radiologist
• Radiographer
• General Physician

Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:

• Medical consultants address business-related issues for medical facilities and healthcare providers so they can prioritize providing care.
• They gather and analyze data, draw conclusions and present findings in the form of recommendations to their clients. For example, they may offer salary, staffing, budgeting and advertising suggestions.
• Some medical consultants offer advice for standardizing the delivery of care.
• Medical consultants can also help a doctor or healthcare facility with a range of regulatory issues, such as complying with insurance and safety plans, keeping patient information confidential and disposing of hazardous waste.
• They can even suggest ways that a client can lower exposure to malpractice lawsuits or address such lawsuits when they come up.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Some consultants interview potential customers or clients in order to gather information. For example, to find out how well a doctor is doing, some medical consultants may interview patients about the care they received.
• Using these responses, a medical consultant could recommend ways the doctor can increase patient satisfaction. Medical consultants may develop project plans and strategies in line with a client’s business needs.
• Consultants who work with healthcare or medical company start-ups, for example, can suggest how to effectively start a business.
• Medical consultants may also help clients identify and resolve potential problems, such as in workflow or company processes and also offer advice for optimizing hospital, health center or medical-center facility performance.

Skills

• Successful consultants have strong communication skills and are able to identify and resolve problems often before they occur.
• They should have strong research skills and understand and know how to apply industry-specific regulations and guidelines.
• They should be able to work well on their own as well as with a team and know how to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses.
• Consultants should also be familiar with common word-processing and spreadsheet programs, like Microsoft Word and Excel, and with presentation programs, such as PowerPoint