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Medical Doctor Career Opportunities in Uganda

Job Title: Medical Doctor
Duty Station: Mbale
Reports to: Branch In charge

Job Purpose: To perform the task of session (part-time) Doctor for the Mbale RHU Clinic, with a focus on long term and Permanent family planning, deliveries, PMTCT and ART

Core Responsibilities
1. Competently provide long term and permanent family planning methods, and antenatal care, delivery care and post natal care, PMTCT and ART services at the RHU health unit
2. Periodically provide clinical care to none infected, and HIV clients in the Mbale clinic including:
Staging of HIV patients for Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) eligibility Managing complications of ART
3. Manage common tropical illnesses, conduct minor surgery, including preventive circumcision and surgical trauma
4. Maintain accurate medical records and other data collection as required for record keeping, monitoring and evaluation within the clinic and other health delivery settings
5. Perform any other professional duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Experience, Skills and Abilities Required
•Proven experience in providing long term and permanent family planning methods, and monitoring and conducting supervised deliveries
•Ability to deliver integrated reproductive health care, including counseling for family planning and HIV, management of STIs, surgical circumcision and uncomplicated obstetric/ gynecological procedures, including delivery
•Offer PMTCT and other aspects of HIV management including management of opportunistic infections
•Ability to manage common tropical illnesses as well as minor trauma, and have resuscitation skills
•Skills in training


Qualifications
Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medicine (Mb.Ch.B) from recognized institution, with at least 3 years of post qualification exposure to surgical/ obstetrics/gynaecology and experience in general medicine Computer skills in Microsoft Word and Outlook are desirable

Apply for this job

How to apply
Submit by post or hand-deliver an application letter and attach certified copies of academic transcripts, a detailed Curriculum Vitae and other relevant certificates plus contact addresses (e-mail) of 3 referees including day time telephone numbers to:

The Executive Director,
Reproductive Health Uganda,
P.O. Box 10746 KAMPALA
Tel: 0414 540658
Mob: 0772 701953
Fax: 0414 540657
Email: rhu@rhu.or.ug

Or hand-deliver at: RHU Head Office, Plot 2, Katego Road, Kamwokya
(Opposite Uganda Museum)

Closing Date: 22nd December 2010

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

NB: For all the posts, Female applicants are encouraged to apply

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