Physician Emergency Medicine

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities :

• Assessing patients who enter the emergency room immediately and overseeing emergency recovery.
• Conducting follow-up visits to monitor the patient’s condition.
• Requesting the appropriate medical tests and based on them, following a treatment plan.
• Developing effective patient care plans.
• Referring patients to appropriate specialists.
• Ensuring that patients are stable before transferring them to the proper department for further evaluation.
• Providing instructions for discharge and any relevant paperwork.
• Maintaining patients' medical records.
• Coordinating with different ER departments to ensure patients receive the necessary treatment.

Doctor Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in medicine from an accredited institution.
• 3 4 years’ experience in a residency program.
• A license to practice medicine.
• In-depth knowledge of current medical treatments and procedures.
• Great attention to detail with excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Ability to think and act quickly in a stressful environment.

If a patient presents to the emergency department in distress, the emergency physician may be expected to perform any of the following procedures :

• Collecting medical histories
• Thoroughly examining patients
• Drawing conclusions and order tests
• Deciding on appropriate courses of treatment
• Emergency resuscitation
• Placing intravenous lines
• Taking whatever steps are necessary to stabilize the patient for transport to another area of the hospital or transport to another hospital
• Effectively treating less serious injuries, such as broken bones or lacerations.
• Determining if patients need to be admitted to the hospital for further evaluation
• Deciding whether
• Discharging some patients with instructions for self-treatment and follow-up with their personal care physician for additional evaluation on an outpatient basis.

The emergency physician is expected to fully document all cases he or she works. Patient charting can add an additional dimension to an emergency physician’s workload in a busy emergency department.

In spite of the rigorous demands of the job, most emergency physicians chose emergency medicine because it provides a satisfying, life-long career of service and patient care.