Job Title: Medical Doctor
Organisation: Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
Duty Station: Mulago, Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Physician
About the Company:
Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is an independently governed institute within the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University and has the mission “To strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development.” IDI has operations across Uganda as well as in a number of other African countries and has a staffing of over 1,000 managing multiple projects in research, clinical services, public health and training.
Job 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 Duties and 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.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Academic Qualification
- Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery
- Completion of Internship 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.
How to Apply:
All interested candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 28th August 2024
NB: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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