Job Description
The key result areas of this role are:
- Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
- Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, and examination results.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.
- Provide annual medical check-ups, counseling patient on healthy lifestyle and wellbeing
- Execute minor surgical procedures on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems in conjunction with specialist physicians.
- Adhering to professional and service code of conduct and ethics;
- To ensure comprehensive, accurate and concise medical records are collected and maintained for patients with an appropriate signed and dated legible entry in the patient’s medical record.
- Participate in clinical audit and quality programs as appropriate.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- The job holder must be licensed to practice medicine from the Nigerian Medical and Dental Association.
- Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience as a family medicine physician.
- He or She must possess primaries in Family Medicine.
- Knowledge of Families Medicine and other areas of medical practice such as Pediatrics & Obstetrics & Gynecology, Surgery ect.
- The job holder must have good communication skills, a strong abili