Entity
Medical College
Location
Karachi, Pakistan
Introduction
Aga Khan University (AKU), a private, self-governing international university chartered in Pakistan in 1983, is a role model for academic, research, and service programmes in health and higher education in the developing world. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom, and Afghanistan, and is a major component of the Aga Khan Development Network.
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.
The Department of Oncology offers comprehensive cancer care services to all patients. The services are provided through multidisciplinary teams. Infrastructure facilities include a daycare setting dedicated to oncology patients. Outpatient facilities include clinics of Medical, Paediatric and Radiation Oncology, Hematology, and Palliative Care.
Aga Khan University Hospital invites applications for the position of Fellow Medical Officer, Paediatric Neuro Oncology, Department of Oncology.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible to:
- look after children with brain tumors both inpatient and outpatient. Specific responsibilities include:
- look after all Paediatric Neuro-Oncology patients at outpatient clinic admitted in ward on daily basis
- assessment of patient before chemotherapy
- enter chemotherapeutics in accordance with consultants advice
- assessment of patient during chemotherapy administration
- prescribe post-chemotherapy medication
- participate in outpatient clinics and patient management under supervision of an attending physician
- ensure proper documentation in medical record and record keeping
- administer and monitor cytotoxic chemotherapy, blood and blood products transfusions in paediatrics patient
- collaborate with Paediatric and neurosurgery resents for treatment of brain tumors
- coordinate Neuro-oncology tumor boards.
Requirements
You should have:
- MBBS Degree with FCPS/MCPS Paediatric with preferably Paediatric Haemotology/Oncology experience
- ability to obtain history, physical examination and interpret laboratory data
- excellent clinical skills
- excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- ability to work in teams and independently
- ability to deal with common oncological emergencies
Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.
