Resident Physician

About the role

Alexandra Hospital is recruiting a Resident Physician or Senior Resident Physician. These are experienced doctors with a recognised postgraduate qualification who have completed the 3-year basic postgraduate specialist training, and who take on considerable responsibility beyond that of Medical and House Officers.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise and run the ward day to day, including patient care, and show good diagnostic and clinical management acumen.
• Supervise and teach House Officers, Medical Officers and Trainees.
• See cold referrals not specially referred to a named consultant, and see urgent referrals on night duty.
• Inform the on-call Consultant of all difficult and complex admissions or referrals.
• Do night ward rounds and admitting rounds outside office hours; in emergencies and after hours they may also oversee write-outs and sign consultation referral letters.
• Compile Confidential Mortality Reports for submission to the Chairman Medical Board through the Head of Department, and represent the ward at Coroner's inquests or medico-legal hearings when in charge of a ward.
• Attend all departmental ward rounds, teaching seminars and clinic-pathological case conferences.
• In surgical disciplines, carry out elective and emergency operations within the complexity permitted by senior staff, and teach Medical Officers basic operative procedures.
• Keep up specialty knowledge, perform other duties directed by the Head of Department or Chairman Medical Board, and may be asked to perform duties of the next lower grade.

Required profile

• Completed basic specialist training with a recognised postgraduate qualification.
• Registered with the Singapore Medical Council.
• Completed 1 year of housemanship and 3 years of medical officer posting.