Senior Registrar Internal Medicine

Senior Registrar is responsible for providing the care of his/her patients maintaining a high-level of professional performance in accordance with:

• Evidenced based medicine.

• Professional medical ethics and CBAHI/JCIA standards.

• Hospital medical by-laws.

• Laws of Ministry of Health in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and any other applicable regulations according to the departmental quality plan.

• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.

• Performs history-taking, physical examinations, interpretation of common diagnostic tests and document patient condition on admission in the specified admissions sheet as per JCIA/CBAHI standards when registrar is not available or when advised by Head of the Department.

• Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges.

• Admits patients form the hospital facilities (E.R., OPD) on his own or as determined by HOD upon appropriate discussion with the consultant.

• Evaluates new admission and coordinates a plan of investigation to establish a diagnosis and a management course with or without consultant assistance as determined by HOD. 

• Conducts daily ward rounds to all inpatients in the department, on his own and/or as a team with other department staff as determined by HOD.

• Documents plan of patient management in a legible, accurate and maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patients medical records.

• Seeks the advice of or help of the Consultant whenever the condition of a patient merits further expertise.

• Prepares all discharge summaries, death reports and special reports on related patients when registrar is not available or when advised by Head of the Department.

• Presents new admissions to the department through the daily morning reports when on duty when the registrar is not available.