Senior Medical Officer - St. Patrick's Hospital and Maternity - Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
(2021-04)
Working in this 100-bedded secondary care centre which is a major referral centre in Enugu, Nigeria, serving a community of more than 500,000 people. Senior Medical Officer for almost 4 years with responsibilities across emergency department, clinic, ward, theatre/call duty, and labour ward.
- Emergency department: First person on call, report directly to managing consultant, receive emergencies, take history, perform examination, institute resuscitation, send for investigations including bedside urinalysis, clotting time, and urgent sonography
- Ensure patient-centered care plan by explaining diagnosis and involving patient in management
- Involve other medical professionals to ensure best possible care
- Triage emergency department activities to ensure dire emergencies receive care first
- Ensure patients requiring admission are referred to appropriate department
- Carry out preoperative assessment for patients requiring urgent surgical intervention
- Participate in clinic services including antenatal clinic (2 days weekly) and gynaecology clinic (2 days weekly)
- Attend to relatively stable patients by adequately assessing them and providing appropriate care
- Review ward patients and ensure they are seen by unit consultant
- Collect and ensure investigation reports are ready for ward rounds
- Carry out post ward round instructions including writing discharge summaries and follow up visits
- Carry out Senior Medical Officer ward rounds and report directly to unit Consultant
- Assist in performing both elective and emergency surgeries including caesarean section, exploratory laparotomy, myomectomy, hysterectomy, laparoscopy, dye test, laparoscopic salpingectomy, appendectomy
- Take 5-6 call duties monthly working with other medical professionals and reporting to unit consultant
- Monitor progress of labour using Pathograph and intervene as required
- Take deliveries and repair episiotomies
- Manage complications such as primary post-partum haemorrhage
- Educate and mentor medical students and nurses preparing for exams
- Improve patient outcomes through improved clinical quality processes and audit
- Work with research and pharmaceutical organizations to conduct clinical trials
- Reduce hospital readmission rates through effective discharge planning and follow-up care coordination
- Assess and manage psychiatric patients
- Attend to admitted psychiatric cases and report to consultant
- Evaluate common medical cases and manage
- Carry out medical officers ward rounds and report to consultant
- Assess, examine and stabilize trauma cases
- Perform pre and post operative assessment
- Assist in performing wide range of surgeries
- Participate in consultant ward rounds and carry out medical officers ward rounds
Medical Officer - Prime Paediatric Specialist Hospital Awka - Awka, Anambra, Nigeria
(2019-11 - 2021-03)
Worked as Medical Officer with responsibilities in accident and emergency department, ward care, ICU, and newborn unit.
- First on call in accident and emergency department, attending to various emergency cases and facilitating referral to appropriate specialties
- Request appropriate medical tests and formulate treatment plans
- Take medical history from newly admitted patients, perform detailed examination, and review findings with consultants
- Respond to routine ward bleeps and crash calls for emergencies
- Participate actively in consultants and medical officers' rounds
- Carry out basic bedside procedures including intravenous cannulation, venesection, urethral catheterization, nebulization
- Write discharge letters, referral letters and other interdisciplinary documentations
- Take part in audit assessing patient satisfaction with nursing care
- Work closely with nurses and consultant anaesthetist to care for patients in ICU
- Pass nasogastric tubes, urethral catheters, intravenous cannulation, endotracheal intubation for unconscious patients and femoral line under supervision
- Monitor patient progress and adjust treatments accordingly in newborn unit
- Enhance patient satisfaction with thorough assessments, diagnoses, and treatment plans
- Participate in ongoing professional development to stay current with advances in medicine
- Assist senior physicians and surgeons during assessments, examinations and surgical interventions
Medical House Officer - Alex Ekwueme University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki - Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
(2018-10 - 2019-09)
Completed one year of compulsory, uninterrupted internship at this 600-bedded teaching hospital. Rotated through multiple departments including Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Child Health, Surgery (Orthopaedics, Plastic, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Paediatric Surgery), Haematology and Blood Transfusion, and Emergency/Trauma units.
- Involved in both in-patient and out-patient care of patients in Obstetrics and Gynaecology under supervision of consultants and registrars
- Worked on ward, in clinic, theatre, and O&G emergency units
- Involved in preparation of patients for surgeries, assisted in some, and participated in post-operative care
- Learned to monitor labour, use and interpret the pathograph, give and repair episiotomy
- Made regular presentations of cases during ward and daily departmental meetings
