Medical Doctor

Main Job Duties:

• Provide medical care to patients/beneficiaries according to adapted and update medical knowledge, MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards to improve the patients/beneficiaries health conditions.
• Provide health care related to sexual and reproductive health to patients, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment for sexual violence and others.
• Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood?
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem or complication of the patients’ illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
• Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures professional confidentiality is respected.
• Ensure the implementation of MSF clinical policies, tools, guidelines and protocols related to gynecology and obstetrics in order to minimize clinical risk and to extend best reproductive practices.
• In collaboration with other medical colleagues, carry out the collection of quantitative epidemiological data and ensure exhaustive use of management tools in order to improve results and to share knowledge among other field specialists.
• Supervise the maintenance and running of the medical equipment and drug consumption, preparing new orders when required and ensuring its rational use as well as those pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and available. This will be done in cooperation with the Project Medical Referent and the nurse responsible for pharmacy if available.