About this role
Consultant Family Medicine - Benin
About the role
- To provide specialist family medicine care across the patient pathway, leading the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients in out-patient, in-patient and referral settings.
- The Consultant provides senior clinical expertise, supervises and trains junior medical staff, and contributes to the clinical standards and governance of the family medicine service.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of patients in family medicine, including complex cases, and act as a senior point of referral for junior medical staff.
- Supervise, teach and support the training and development of senior medical officers, medical officers and trainees.
- Contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and patient-safety activities.
- Coordinate care with other specialties, diagnostics, pharmacy, nursing, allied health and managed-care/HMO functions, applying evidence-based, cost-effective practice.
- Maintain accurate, timely clinical records and current MDCN registration/licence in line with internal clinical policy.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS or MBChB) from a recognised institution.
- Completion of the required national housemanship/internship and NYSC, or a valid exemption where applicable. A registrable postgraduate specialist qualification (Fellowship) in the relevant discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years of post-fellowship specialist experience in the relevant discipline.
- Demonstrable competence in the independent specialist management of complex cases in family medicine.
- Experience teaching, training and supervising junior medical staff.
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team to deliver family medicine services in a hospital setting.
- Experience contributing to clinical audit, quality improvement, morbidity/mortality review, patient-safety activities or service improvement within family medicine.
Required skills
- Comprehensive specialist knowledge of paediatrics across a broad range of acute and chronic presentations
- Ability to manage complex cases and to provide senior clinical judgement
- Sound understanding of clinical governance, audit, patient safety and evidence-based practice
- Ability to teach, supervise and support the development of junior medical staff
- Sound clinical record-keeping and competent use of hospital clinical systems
- Effective communication with patients, families and colleagues
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
Nice to have:
- Additional sub-specialty training or certification relevant to the discipline
- Membership of relevant specialty associations or faculties.