Paediatricians conduct clinical training for and work together with locally hired staff to provide on-call support within their assigned project. For complex cases, they may also work with a specialist through telemedicine. With testing, treatment, and personnel resources limited, paediatricians can sometimes experience high mortality when working on their own, therefore, a strong mind as well as high leadership and management skills are required. They must respond flexibly to the changing needs and problems that arise.
ACTIVITIES
- Provide treatment and guidance for malnourished patients, resuscitation of newborns and low birth weight infants, and management of chronic conditions such as diabetes, nephrotic syndrome, and heart disease
- Guide outpatient care for paediatric patients with various infectious diseases
- Practice and supervise MSF guidelines, create in-hospital protocols (such as nosocomial infection prevention measures), and conduct planning and guidance as necessary
- Submit activity reports, manage data (patient files, forms, statistics, databases, cause of death investigations, etc.), prepare materials for M&M conferences, etc.
- Guide vaccination and communication between patients, their families, and healthcare professionals
- Manage and order pharmaceutical supplies, test reagents, and other supplies necessary for paediatric care
- Cooperate with surgeons as needed to carry out perioperative management (preoperative and postoperative)
REQUIREMENTS
- Compliance with all of the essential requirements for all potential candidates
- Minimum of five years experience post-qualification (have started PGY 6)
- Paediatrics specialisation or ongoing specialisation, with a minimum of three years professional experience in paediatrics, including experience in neonatal care
- Available for assignment for a minimum of six months
- Current practising certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
- Willingness to abide by Médecins Sans Frontières medical protocols
DESIRABLE
- Additional clinical experience in areas such as paediatric ICU, NICU, nutrition, emergency, infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB), public health, minor surgery, obstetrics/gynaecology, anaesthesia
- Post graduate study in international public health, refugee health, infectious diseases (especially TB and HIV/AIDS) or tropical medicine
- Current certification in Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) and/or Helping Babies Breathe (HBB)
