Home Care Physician provides comprehensive medical care in the community setting, assisting patients to achieve optimum health and quality of life in situations of chronic disease.
Requirements
- Initial and follow-up consultation
- Undertake a risk assessment ensuring appropriate immediate management according to local protocols
- Order laboratory and radiology test and refer patients to specialists when appropriate
- Analyze reports, test results, medical records, and examinations to diagnose patients' conditions and propose treatment options
- Managing patient complaints and assuring patient and physician rights are upheld
- Work with the healthcare team to provide patients with primary medical care services within the care standard
- Prescribe pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions
- Discuss potential side effects of medication/treatment with patients and ensure that all allergy information is up to date before prescribing medication/treatment
- Provide advice to patients for lifestyle and diet changes that may improve their health or help treat their health issues
- Adhere to policies, procedures and objectives, ongoing quality improvement objectives and safety, environmental, and infection control standards
- Record complete, timely and legible medical records
- Attending and completing Pharmacovigilance, Pharma and Product Training provided by the Client with a clear understanding of how to collect and report safety data
- Reporting Adverse Events and follow the country rules and regulation regarding AE reporting procedure and reporting any concerns /changes in patient health to the program and/or treating physician
- Familiarity with Medical equipment (like ECG machine, spirometry and monitors) and ability to provide Medical assessments to patients
- Conduct all program activities through exclusive use of Axios’ Patient Management System (PMS)
- Reporting any adverse events/product complaints as per client’s requirements and/or Axios SOPPs
- Additional duties as assigned