Fellow Medical Officer (Critical Care Medicine), Department of Medicine

Introduction

The Aga Khan University Hospital has multiple specialties all under one roof. This enables our doctors in the Internal Medicine to work closely with doctors from other departments in the hospital and ensure our patients receive a holistic approach to their health treatment plan.

A doctor specialized in Internal Medicine is trained to diagnose, treat and manage patients who come into the Emergency suffering with diseases and conditions for which they need to be admitted into the hospital.

The Critical Care Medicine is designed as a joint programme between the Departments of Medicine and Anaesthesiology. The Medical ICU is staffed in a “Closed ICU” model, with the Intensivist on-call as Primary Attending in the ICU.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees / trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities :

• The FMO participates in Intensive care inpatient diagnosis and management, in instructing and directing house staff care, and in educating junior residents assigned to the service.
• Approximately 20-30 hours per week are devoted to rounds. There are 5-10 patients on the service at any one time representing a broad spectrum of acute medical diseases. Pre-rounding with the residents on patients in the intensive care units.
• Performance of all invasive procedures under supervision.
• Application, monitoring, titration and weaning of non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation
• Most consultations for the ICU are first answered by the trainee and presented to the attending. The FMO is expected to take a history, review previous medical records, examine the patient, analyse all pertinent investigation and then formulate and document a detailed assessment and list of recommendations.
• FMO is expected to rotate primarily in the MICU and SICU.
• Pre rounding with the residents on patients in the intensive care unit.
• Performance of all invasive procedures and bronchoscopy under supervision.
• Electives in Thoracic Surgery, cardiac ICU, ER, Pulmonary consults are made with mutual agreements between departments.

Requirements : You should have :

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