Job Requirements

• Typically, a medical degree (primary care physician) with a valid license to practice and be board certified or equivalent (board eligible).

• Typically, 2+ years of relevant clinical work, post graduate medical experience after graduating from medical college, work in low-resource settings preferred.

• Experience in programs relating to primary health care, maternal and child health, reproductive health, communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as emergency/outbreak response preferable.

• Previous NGO experience preferable

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks in a dynamic, high-pressure environment.

• Excellent communications skills, both oral and written.

• Excellent self-motivation skills.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment and excellent decision-making skills.

• Extremely flexible and can cope with stressful situations.

• Able to work effectively with various personalities and cultures.

• Provide high quality clinical care to patients based on history, appropriate physical exam, available laboratory, imaging tests, and formulary for treatment of acute and chronic conditions.

• Based on the area of assignment, conduct daily rounds on patients, initiate case discussions, monitor and document patient progress with any changes in management and prognosis and ensure adequate handover in case physicians' responsibilities are assigned to an inpatient facility.

• Advise if further testing and/or advanced care is required and initiate the referral process.

• Initiate regular case discussions as part of hands-on training.

• Identify gaps in staff training and provide didactic and/or hands-on training as needed.

• Advocate to supervisors for other necessary training of the staff working in the team as well as providing necessary training.

• Utilize given data collection tools and provide training to other staff as needed.

• Collect and analyze medical service data to quality of care for the patients and services.

• Ensure standard precautions of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures are always implemented and adhered to as per MoH and international standards.

• When applicable, participate in a 24-hour health service delivery system at the clinic/facility/hospital as per shift schedules.

• Adhere to international protocols and standards related to patient assessment, diagnostic and medical prescription of drugs.