Background information about the job or company

Aga Khan University Hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan and Nairobi, Kenya are private, not-for-profit institutions providing high quality health care. The Main Hospitals serve as the principal sites for clinical training for the University's Medical Colleges and Schools of Nursing and Midwifery in Pakistan and East Africa. Our Vision of Aga Khan University Ho...

Responsibilities or duties

• Conduct General Surgical ward rounds.
• Review and examine patients consistently by performing such duties as taking case histories, conducting physical examinations, and ordering diagnostic laboratory and radiology studies.
• Monitor patients' progress on a regular basis.
• Conduct the General Surgery Clinics and perform procedures in the Day Surgery and Endoscopy Units in Outreach Facilities and in the Main Hospital under different levels of supervision as determined by the Supervisor
• Coordinate clinical services in the Day Surgery and Endoscopy Units in the Outreach Division
• Initiate discussions with patient and care givers to enable better diagnostic and therapeutic medical care and services
• When on call or on duty, assist in the evaluation and management of emergency cases with both operative and non-operative measures in consultation with admitting doctor
• Attend to critical patients in a timely manner
• When necessary, carry out privileged and potentially life- saving emergency medical procedures.

Qualifications or requirements

• Master of Medicine in Surgery or equivalent
• Bachelors of Surgery and Bachelors of Medicine
• Registration by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS)

• Conduct General Surgical ward rounds.
• Review and examine patients consistently by performing such duties as taking case histories, conducting physical examinations, and ordering diagnostic laboratory and radiology studies.
• Monitor patients' progress on a regular basis.
• Conduct the General Surgery Clinics and perform procedures in the Day Surgery and Endoscopy Units in Outreach Facilities and in the Main Hospital under different levels of supervision as determined by the Supervisor
• Coordinate clinical services in the Day Surgery and Endoscopy Units in the Outreach Division
• Initiate discussions with patient and care givers to enable better diagnostic and therapeutic medical care and services
• When on call or on duty, assist in the evaluation and management of emergency cases with both operative and non-operative measures in consultation with admitting doctor
• Attend to critical patients in a timely manner
• When necessary, carry out privileged and potentially life- saving emergency medical procedures.

• Master of Medicine in Surgery or equivalent
• Bachelors of Surgery and Bachelors of Medicine
• Registration by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS)