FUNCTIONS:

Provide Patient Care and Support to Specialized Doctors

TASKS:

 Promote early and appropriate responses to patients according to triage times

 Resuscitate or stabilize patients and refer them to the appropriate medical departments

 Act quickly to make a tentative diagnosis and determine the appropriate course of treatment

 Initiate and assess the patient’s medical, physical, and psychosocial status  Develop treatment plan

 Perform regular ward rounds

 Record progress notes

 Order tests, examinations, medications, and therapies

 Write medical prescriptions and ensure patients receive all prescribed medications

 Write admission notes, progress notes and procedure notes.

 Provide patient education and counselling on health status.

 Participate in the development and achievement of specific objectives of the service

 Ensure quality care to in-patients

 Follow-up of ordered investigations

 Be involved in the management of ward beds

 Fill the patient files

 Assigned other activities within his/her competency by the Head of service

 Submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports to the supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in general medicine with a registration certificate and valid license to practice medicine in Rwanda issued by a professional council and should be certified as a medical officer, which is graded by the professional council. – Proof of completion of the duration of the public service agreement

NOTICE: – Only medical officers who have completed the duration of the public service agreement will be considered