Senior Registrar ER Physician

 

 

• Ensures through his/her actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the Riyadh Care Hospital.

 

 

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

 

 

• Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.

 

 

• Participates in the development and maintenance of medical contingency disaster plans.

 

 

• Maintain the quality of the triage system performed by the Emergency Room Nurse.

 

 

• Supervises the performance of the E.R. physicians in the unit.

 

 

• Performs some diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty as per his / her privileges.

 

 

• Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities.

 

 

• Participates in the on-call Rota of the department for patient care.

 

 

• Observes and upholds the patient's rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.

 

 

• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.

 

 

• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient's medical records.

 

 

• Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.

 

 

• Provides leadership for performance-improvement functions in the process of measurement, assessment and improvement of both clinical and non-clinical process as part of the Departmental Quality Plan.

 

 

• Active participation in Continued Medical Education (C.M.E.) through educational hospital activities (morning report meetings, grand rounds, clinical tutorials and seminars, journal club, radiology or clinico-pathological conferences). Also, through National and International meetings, conferences and symposia.

 

 

• Active participation in training program related to his/her field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in-service training for nursing staff and technicians.

 

 

• Continuous update of his/her knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.

 

 

 

 

 

• Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc.) 

 

 

 

 

• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.

 

 

 

 

 

• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure including documentation in patient medical record.

 

 

• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.

 

 

• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.

 

 

• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.

 

 

 

 

 

• Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.

 

 

• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of his/her knowledge, skills and abilities.

 

 

Reporting to

·         Head of Department

Supervises

        ·        All ER Registrars and Residents.

Liaises with:

 

 

• The department head and other staff in the department, Quality Improvement Department, Nursing staff, other health care professionals, patients and their families.

 

 

Qualifications:

Either American Board, FRCS or Canadian Fellowship, or MRCP, or Equivalent

EXPERIENCE:

 

 

• Required

 

 

Minimum three (3) years experience Post Qualification.

Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of specialty. Registration in Saudi Medical Council and/or Current license to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia.           

 

 

• Demonstrates leadership and administrative skills.

 

 

• Fluent in verbal and written English.

 

 

• Exhibits professionalism and excellent interpersonal communication skills.

 

 

• Is knowledgeable of the Medical by-laws.

 

 

• Knowledge of computer application.