Resident Medical Officer, Anesthesiology

Entity: Aga Khan University

Location: Karachi

Introduction to the Aga Khan University:

Chartered in 1983, Aga Khan University (AKU) is a private, autonomous, and self-governing international university with 13 teaching sites in 6 countries distributed across three continents. As an integral part of the Aga Khan Development Network, AKU provides higher education in several disciplines, carries out research pertinent to the countries in which it exists and has campuses, programs and/or teaching hospitals in Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and the UK. As an international institution, AKU operates on the core principles of quality, relevance, impact, and access; and AKU is a model of academic excellence and an agent of social change.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Job Roles / Responsibilities:

The candidate will be assigned the following responsibilities:

• Outpatient:
  • Perform preoperative assessment of patients visiting preoperative anaesthesia clinic.
  • Perform assessment of patient visiting pain clinic and make initial management plan.
• Operating Room:
  • Prepare theatre for scheduled surgery.
  • Make anaesthesia management plan.
  • Administer anaesthesia according to assigned privileges
  • Manage patients in PACU.
• Wards:
  • Perform preoperative and postoperative rounds.
  • Perform daily ward rounds with member of acute and chronic pain management team.
• ICU:
  • Perform initial assessment and make initial management plan.
  • Perform daily rounds with ICU consultant.
  • Daily management of patients under supervision of the consultant
• Miscellaneous:
  • Provide anaesthesia service under supervision of consultants in:
    • Labour room suite for painless delivery
    • Radiology suite for various radiological procedures
    • Psychiatry wards for ECT therapy
• On-call:
  • Be available on the premises when on-call.
  • Handover and takeover charge from the outgoing team.
  • Attend to all patient related issues and counsel when on-call including the operating room, ICU, emergency room and ward.
  • Communicate patient’s clinical status with instructors and consultants when needed.

Requirements:

• MBBS
• PMDC Registration
• FCPS-I is mandatory in Anesthesiology.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.