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Main purpose:
- Médecins Sans Frontières / أطباء بلا حدود anesthesia providers often work in conflict settings to provide care to communities without access to functioning health care systems. Surgical cases include: general, trauma, obstetrics, orthopedic, burn and reconstruction, working with all ages.
- Basic diagnostic equipment and facilities needed to run an operating room will be limited: there may not even be an X-ray machine. Responsibilities include providing anesthesia, pain management, teaching and supervising of local staff, reporting, and at times assisting the ICU.
Accountabilities:
- Reanimation activities in different hospital department: emergency, in-patient department including maternity, intensive care unit. In some contexts you might be responsible of Emergency Medicine and/or Intensive Care.
- Supervising and coordinating the anesthesia activities in emergency room, dressing room, operating theater, in-patient department, intensive care unit, maternity, and out-patient clinic.
- Providing pre-, per (intra) and post-operative anesthetic care that allows patients to receive prime support in their surgical treatment.
- Supervising and coordinating anesthetic activity in its entirety and provide training relating to anesthesia.
- Implementing and maintaining quality tools in anesthesia care: use of standard MSF guidelines and protocols, use of standards files and registers, and use of MSF data collection system.
- Reporting: collection and analysis of medical data.
Job Requirements
Education:
- Completed residency in anesthesia with valid degree and current license.
- Experience in pediatric, obstetric and trauma anesthesia
- Extensive experience in dissociative and spinal anesthesia
- Experience in regional blocks is welcome.
Other Requirements:
- Medical ethics.
- Cultural sensitivity.
- Altruism.
- Openness and flexibility.
- Ability to live and work as a team.
- Ability to manage stress.
- Availability: MSF requires a minimum of a 2 years commitment.
Experience:
- Essential at least 2 year certified work experience in Anesthesia
Languages:
- Arabic, English and/or French.