Consultant Cardiology

Job Description

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.

• Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges for both in-patients and outpatients.

• Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.

• To perform his duties in the cardiology clinic evaluating patients with cardiovascular diseases.

• To provide care to his patients in the coronary care unit, intermediate care unit and other medical wards.

• To perform cardiac procedures: stress testing, nuclear cardiology, EKG interpretation, Holter monitors, Echocardiogram and Doppler’s, cardiac catheterization and pacemakers, etc.

• To provide consultation services to the inpatients in his area of expertise.

• Conducts regular ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi-disciplinary treatment plan.

• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.

• Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities as well as accepting referrals of patients with medical problems in his/her field of specialty.

• Participate in the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.

• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.

• Observes and upholds the patients rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.

• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient’s medical records.

• Consultant has a leadership role in the organization performance.

• Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.

• Provides leadership for performance-improvement functions in the process of measurement, assessment and improvement of both clinical and non-clinical process as part of the Departmental Quality Plan.

• Active participation in Continued Medical Education (C.M.E.) through educational hospital activities (morning report meetings, grand rounds, clinical tutorials and seminars, journal club, radiology or clinico-pathological conferences).Also, through National and International meetings, conferences and symposia. Participation in review of literature, case reporting and clinical studies/research.

• Active participation in training program related to his field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in-service training for nursing staff and technicians.

• Continuous update of his knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.

• Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control)

• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.

• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure including documentation in patient medical record.

• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.

• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.

• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.

• Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.

• To carry out any other assignments as directed by Hospital Administration and/or the department head and within the realm of his knowledge, skills and abilities.

Reporting to

• Head of department

Supervises

• Senior Registrars, Registrars, Residents, Nurses and other paramedical staff assigned to him.

• Liaises with:

Consultants of his/her specialty, of other specialties within the department, Consultant of other departments, Nursing staff, other health care professionals, patients and their families.

Qualifications:

A minimum of:

• EDUCATION :

• Required

Either American Board, or Canadian Fellowship, or MRCP, or Equivalent

• Desirable

Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any.

EXPERIENCE:

• Required

• Minimum five (5) years experience Post Qualification.
• Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of specialty.
• Registration in Saudi Commission for Health Specialties and/or

current license to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia.