Medical Officer at Ace Medicare Clinics (2023-12 – Present)
Providing comprehensive medical care including patient evaluations, emergency stabilization, outpatient clinic participation, minor surgical procedures, and maternal/antenatal health services.
- Do thorough patient evaluations by taking detailed histories, doing focused physical examinations, and coming up with evidence-based differential diagnoses and management plans for a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.
- Take care of medical emergencies by stabilizing patients who are critically ill with conditions like severe infections, acute asthma, hypertensive crises, trauma, and obstetric complications.
- Participate in outpatient clinics creating individualized treatment plans, keeping track of progress, adjusting medication regimens as indicated, and making sure that care continues by keeping detailed records in EMR systems.
- Follow clinical safety protocols to do minor surgeries and procedures like suturing wounds, making incisions and draining abscesses, inserting urethral catheters, IV cannulas, and fluid resuscitation.
- Use laboratory results, ECGs, and radiological findings to help make decisions about patient treatment plans and provide appropriate follow-up care.
- Conduct ward rounds for patients on admission to monitor clinical progress, adjust treatment plans based on response to therapy, and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Participate in maternal and antenatal health clinics by running regular antenatal reviews, identifying high-risk pregnancies, and responding to obstetric emergencies.
- Provide education to patients and families regarding diagnoses, medication compliance, lifestyle modifications, and long-term wellness strategies.
- Follow infection control policies, clinical protocols, and documentation standards to lower risk and help improve quality while making sure that clinical governance and patient safety are always in place.
- Organize seamless referrals and clinical escalations to tertiary centers for complex or unstable patients, ensuring continuity of care and effective transition management.
Medical Officer at Kowa Clinic (2021-07 – 2023-11)
Led triage and risk assessment for walk-in and emergency patients, managed chronic disease clinics, conducted pediatric evaluations, and coordinated laboratory and radiology investigations.
- Led the first triage and risk assessment for walk-in and emergency patients, quickly spotting red-flag symptoms and putting high-risk cases like suspected sepsis, acute chest pain, and severe dehydration at the top of the list.
- Participated in clinics for people with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma, and hypertension. This included adjusting medication doses based on individualised responses to treatment, giving lifestyle advice, and organising follow up care.
- Partook in pediatric evaluations, diagnosing and treating childhood illnesses like malaria, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, and febrile seizures, ensuring that fluids were safely administered and families were educated and updated on clinical states.
- Collaborated with the laboratory and radiology departments to ensure appropriate investigations, timely review of results, and use for effective decisions about patient care.
- Maintained smooth continuity of care by doing follow-up reviews, clearly documenting clinical decisions in patient records, and coordinating referrals to specialists for cases requiring clinical escalation or surgical evaluation.
Medical Officer at Oak Hospital (2020-12 – 2021-06)
Assisted with theatre and perioperative care, managed obstetric presentations, provided full inpatient monitoring, and delivered out of hours emergency care.
- Assisted with theatre and perioperative care by doing preoperative assessments, monitoring patients prior to surgery, and reviewing patients after surgical procedures.
- Managed obstetric presentations by doing antenatal evaluations, monitoring progress of labor, spotting early warning signs like obstructed labor or preeclampsia, and quickly escalating to senior clinicians as indicated.
- Provided full inpatient monitoring, looking at trends in vital signs, fluid balance, medication response, and adjusting treatment plans to improve clinical response and shorten hospital stay.
- Provided out of hours emergency care for critical presentations such as severe anaemia and acute abdominal pain, utilizing evidence-based guidelines to achieve rapid patient stabilization.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams including nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists to optimize patient care plans, streamline discharge processes, and minimize readmission rates.
Medical Officer (Nigerian Youth Service Corps) at General Hospital, Aboh (2019-06 – 2020-06)
Provided basic medical care in a rural area with limited resources, dealt with community-level emergencies, and organized preventive health programs.
- Provided basic medical care in a rural area with few resources, treating common and neglected tropical diseases while using strong clinical judgement in cases where diagnostic support was limited.
- Dealt with emergencies at the community level, stabilizing patients with conditions like severe malaria, snake bites, convulsions, and obstetric bleeding before arranging safe transport for cases requiring management at higher level facilities.
- Organising community outreach and preventive health programs to educate about malaria prevention, maternal health, sanitation, immunisation schedules, and chronic disease awareness to help improve the health of the population.
Intern Medical Doctor at Immanuel General Hospital (2017-11 – 2018-11)
Completed core clinical rotations across multiple specialties, performed clinical assessments and diagnosis of pediatric conditions, and provided assistance with major and minor surgical procedures.
- Completed core clinical rotations in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics developing proficiency in comprehensive patient clerking, formulating initial management plans, and presenting case summaries during consultant-led reviews and multidisciplinary ward rounds.
- Performed clinical assessment and diagnosis of common paediatric conditions like neonatal jaundice, respiratory infections, febrile convulsions, and dehydration, and ensured precise administration of fluids and antibiotics therapy.
- Provided assistance with major and minor surgeries like herniorrhaphies, appendectomies, wound debridement, and caesarean sections; all while making sure that aseptic technique and patient monitoring before and after surgery were of the highest quality.
