Overview
Resident Physicians and Senior Resident Physicians are experienced doctors with a recognized postgraduate qualification and who have completed the 3-year basic postgraduate specialist training. They are expected to undertake considerable responsibilities in addition to those of Medical and House Officers.
Job Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the following:
- Responsible for the overall supervision and day-to-day running of the wards, including patient care. Shall demonstrate good diagnostic and clinical management acumen.
- Responsible for the supervision and teaching of House Officers, Medical Officers and Trainees.
- See all cold referrals not specially referred to any consultant by name.
- Responsible for seeing urgent referrals while on night duty.
- Inform the Consultant on call of all difficult and complex cases that are admitted into the ward or referred for an opinion.
- Expected to do ward rounds at night and outside of office hours when on call and during admitting nights.
- In emergency situations and outside of office hours, Resident Physicians and Senior Resident Physicians may also oversee the write out and sign all consultation referral letters.
- Responsible for the compilation of Confidential Mortality Reports for submission to the Chairman Medical Board through the Head of Department.
- A Resident Physician or Senior Resident Physician in charge of a ward may also represent the ward or hospital at Coroner’s inquests or medico-legal hearings involving patients in his/her particular ward.
- Expected to attend and participate in all departmental ward rounds including the combined Hospital teaching seminars, clinic-pathological case conference etc.
- In surgical disciplines, Resident Physicians and Senior Resident Physicians have additional duties of carrying out elective and emergency operations to the level of complexity permitted by senior staff of the department.
- Resident Physicians and Senior Resident Physicians of surgical disciplines should teach Medical Officers basic operative procedures and guide them when necessary.
- Resident Physicians and Senior Resident Physicians shall possess specialty knowledge and show enthusiasm in improving knowledge.
- Perform any other duties as directed by Head of Department or the Chairman Medical Board of the hospital.
- May be required to perform the duties of the next lower grade, if necessary.
Requirements
- Education, Training and Experience
- Medical staff who completed basic specialist training and have a recognized postgraduate qualification.
- Professional License
- Must be registered with the Singapore Medical Council, and completed 1 year of housemanship and 3 years medical officer posting.
- *For Hospital Clinician position, one will have to be enrolled in the Hospital Clinical Programme (HCP)
