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| Infectious Diseases Institute |
Medical Doctor job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2024 - 2025
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 28 August 2024
Hiring Organization: Infectious Diseases Institute
Job Details:
General Summary
The Medical Officer will ensure delivery of quality HIV/AIDS care and treatment services to clients by providing technical and leadership support to health facility teams.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide clinical care to HIV/AIDS patients attending the IDI clinic and other IDI-supported health facilities in line with standard care and treatment guidelines.
• Assess and diagnose clinical patient problems, order appropriate diagnostic tests and prescribe medication for patients
• Coordinate appropriate referral and management of complex patients through liaison with senior care specialists and other tertiary treatment centers.
• Contribute to performance monitoring initiatives and routine data use activities at the IDI clinic
• Support the team to identify, implement and document continuous quality improvement activities along client care and treatment cascades.
• Coordinate and support facility efforts in follow up of clients to improve linkage, retention and viral suppression rates among clients in HIV care.
• Participate in weekly Continuing Medical Education sessions
• Contribute to Research efforts as will be appropriate
• Any other duties as may reasonably be assigned from time to time.
Academic Qualification
• Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery
Person Specification
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Degree
• Completion of lnternship training with evidence
• Full and active registration with the UMDPC
• Additional training in HIV/AIDS care and opportunistic infections is added advantage
• Experience and up-to-date technical knowledge of HIV/AIDS clinical care and ART
• Good communication, organization and management skills
• Understands client confidentiality and exhibits high level of ethical conduct
Has basic computer literacy including word processing, excel, internet and power point.
Application procedure
Interested and qualified, Click here to apply.
Date Posted: 2024-08-18
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