Specialist Critical Care Medicine

Role Overview

Astra ProMed is seeking a Specialist Critical Care Medicine Physician to join the intensive care team in Dubai on a full-time basis. The role involves providing comprehensive care to critically ill patients, including assessment, stabilization, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of complex and life-threatening conditions.

Role Purpose

Deliver expert critical-care medicine to patients with acute, life-threatening, and complex medical conditions in the ICU and other critical-care settings. Demonstrate strong clinical judgment, manage advanced critical-care interventions, coordinate multidisciplinary care, and ensure compliance with all regulatory and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Diagnosis

• Conduct initial and ongoing assessments of patients with life-threatening and complex medical conditions.
• Diagnose and manage acute respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, renal, infectious, metabolic, and multi-organ conditions.
• Interpret and integrate laboratory results, blood gases, ECGs, radiological investigations, and other diagnostic studies.

Treatment Planning and Management

• Provide comprehensive medical care to critically ill patients in the ICU and other critical-care settings.
• Develop and implement individualized critical-care management plans.
• Manage patients requiring mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic support, renal replacement therapy, and other advanced critical-care interventions within the physician's scope and facility capabilities.
• Monitor patients continuously and adjust treatment plans according to clinical response.
• Manage medical emergencies, sepsis, septic shock, acute respiratory failure, cardiac emergencies, and multi-organ dysfunction.

Procedures and Emergency Response

• Perform and supervise appropriate critical-care procedures according to training, competency, and hospital privileges.
• Provide airway management and participate in resuscitation and emergency response activities as required.

Multidisciplinary Coordination

• Coordinate care with emergency medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, nephrology, infectious disease, surgery, anesthesia, and other specialties.
• Participate in multidisciplinary ICU rounds and clinical case discussions.

Communication and Documentation

• Communicate effectively with patients' families regarding diagnosis, prognosis, treatment options, and goals of care.
• Ensure appropriate documentation of assessments, treatment plans, procedures, and patient progress.

Quality and Compliance

• Participate in clinical audits, morbidity and mortality reviews, quality-improvement initiatives, and continuing medical education.
• Ensure compliance with DHA regulations, ICU policies, infection-control standards, patient-safety requirements, and hospital protocols.

Qualifications & Experience

• MBBS, MD, or equivalent medical degree from a recognized institution.
• Recognized postgraduate qualification in Critical Care Medicine or Intensive Care Medicine, or an appropriate primary specialty with recognized critical-care training, in accordance with applicable UAE licensing requirements.
• Relevant specialist experience in critical care.
• Valid DHA Specialist license or eligibility to obtain a professional license for practice in Dubai.
• Meets the applicable UAE Professional Qualification Requirements (PQR) for the relevant Specialist title.
• Current professional registration and relevant Good Standing documentation, where applicable.

Skills & Competencies

• Valid BLS/ACLS certification; additional critical-care certifications are advantageous.
• Expert knowledge of critical-care pathology and management protocols.
• Strong clinical judgment and decision-making in complex cases.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary ICU environment.
• Effective communication with patients, families, and clinical teams.

Additional Information

• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Location: Dubai
• Competitive salary package.
• Performance-based incentives, where applicable.
• Medical insurance and other benefits according to company policy.
• Continuing medical education and professional development opportunities.
• Access to modern ICU facilities and critical-care technology.
• Supportive multidisciplinary clinical environment.