Specialist - Internal Medicine

Role Overview

Specialist - Internal Medicine at NMC Healthcare, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Role Purpose

Deliver specialist-level medical care to hospitalized and selected outpatient cases, manage patient admissions and continuity of care across medical wards, intensive care units, and emergency services, and contribute to clinical training and quality assurance activities.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care & Clinical Management

• Manage hospitalized cases and certain outpatients whose disease requires medical care at the specialist level.
• Admit and conduct work-up of all medical patients to medical wards, ICU and CCU as required.
• Retain responsibility for admitted patients from the time of admission to the date of discharge.
• Oversee day-to-day care of patients, even when assigned to ward physicians, maintaining ultimate clinical responsibility.
• Conduct outpatient medical consultations in the clinics by appointment.
• Follow up on medical problems as needed.
• Answer inpatient consultations from medical or other inpatient services.
• Participate in the reading of EKGs.
• Perform lung function studies and make interpretations when needed.
• Administer Executive Health Program examinations on a regular basis.

On-Call & Consultation Services

• Provide on-call availability after working hours for answering medical consultations by physicians in other departments, intensive care areas, medical wards, ER, and other inpatient services.

Training & Professional Development

• Serve as a major contributor to in-service training activities for new employees.

Quality Assurance & Governance

• Participate in in-service death review.
• Participate in chart review, Quality Assurance and peer reviews.
• Participate in the monthly Internal Medicine service Journal activity.
• Participate in assigned committee functions such as ER, Infection Review, Standardization, ICU, CCU and CPR.
• Strictly observe the organization's medical regulations and policies, especially those related to infection control, patient safety, patient assessment and patient care.

Professional Standards

• Perform the professional duties of an internist in adherence to the Delineation of Privileges maintained by the Internal Medicine department.
• Work under the general professional supervision of the Head Internist.
• Perform other miscellaneous related duties as requested by the Head of Internal Medicine.

Qualifications & Experience

• Graduate from an accredited school of Medicine with an MBBS degree.
• Post-graduate Masters degree or equivalent Fellowships approved by Department of Health.
• Minimum of five years experience in the practice of Internal Medicine post certification.
• Current licensure in country of origin and with Department of Health license to practice in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Skills & Competencies

• Thorough knowledge of medical ethics, with particular reference to the obligation to maintain the confidentiality of work.
• Adherence to Bylaws, Rules and Regulations of the Medical Organization.
• Excellent command of oral and written English.
• Knowledge of Arabic language is desirable but not essential.
• Communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with co-workers, superiors, patients and families.