Posted on Wed 20th Mar, 2024 - hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)
EHA Clinics, a subsidiary of eHealth Africa, is a health care network operating across Nigeria that provides high-quality, innovative, data-driven, and technology-enabled services. EHA Clinics delivers a comprehensive range of state of the art health care services in each location, e.g, general consultations, laboratory investigations, pharmaceuticals, annual medical checks, child wellness checks, ultrasonography, and specialized services (urgent care, telemedicine, home care, dental care, and ophthalmology).
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Family Physician
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Clinical Services / Medical
Mission Objective
The clinical services department ensures delivery of high quality medical and laboratory services that are patient centered in order to ensure optimal health and well being for patients achieving the organization’s mission and vision.
The family physician performs a range of functions, including, but not limited to, initial history taking, clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. The family physician demonstrates critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process, especially in assessing and diagnosing patients, leading to the delivery of safe care for all patients. The family physician works collaboratively with the healthcare team and the management team to meet the needs of the patients, supporting the delivery of policies and procedures. Additionally, the family physician supervises the medical doctors within the clinic to ensure that policies and procedures are upheld.
Duties And Responsibilities
Purpose:
Engagement Delivery:
Develop a curriculum for continuing professional development for doctors under their supervision. Regularly reflect on own practice (and keep a record of learning encounters) in order to identify learning needs and encourage self-directed lifelong learning and continued professional development.
Perform a variety of research and analysis tasks associated with improvement of clinical care, medical diagnosis, and treatment where appropriate.
Assist in clinical instruction Support clinical research and efforts within the EHA Clinic
Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines. Formulate diagnosis and treatment plans
Champions all medical aspects of the quality program, including quality measurement, external reporting and quality improvement. Champions the infection control activities including antimicrobial stewardship and relevant KPIs
Supervision of medical and nursing staff as well as other interns/student doctors that may periodically be attached to the clinics, including the educational development and mentoring of these individuals.
Attend regular educational meetings organized by the practice in order to update clinical knowledge, practice policy, and guidelines and disseminate other useful information relevant to the provision of adequate healthcare for patients.
Communicate when necessary with colleagues in Clinical care and hospital specialists in order to discuss or refer specific patients, plan and coordinate activities, or exchange information in order to improve the quality of patient care.
Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyze, diagnose, and explain medical problems during in-person and telehealth consultations and home visits.
Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes.
Champions all medical aspects of the quality program, including quality measurement, external reporting and quality improvement. Audit of clinical practice and review of relevant literature.
Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes. Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care.
Targeted Specialized Knowledge
MBBS, MBChb, MD or DO Degree.
Membership/Fellowship of Recognized International Colleges of Family Medicine or General Practitioners
Membership/Fellowship of West African/National College of Physicians with specialty in Family Medicine
Valid Medical license to practice as a specialist in Nigeria
5+ years post post-residency experience
Key Areas of Note:
Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals, etc.
Research unusual symptoms and treatment options, through consultation with physicians and other medical specialists.