ACTIVITIES
- Set-up, supervise and lead the ER ward and make improvements to triage and hospital flow
- Provide evidence-based education in areas such as proper use of antibacterial drugs, informed consent, and palliative care
- Coordinate between multiple occupations and departments, including transportation coordination
- Create manuals for mass casualty response and conduct training for implementation
- Oversee long-term projects involving chronic disease management
- Respond to infection in epidemic areas
- Deal with trauma in conflict areas and large numbers of injured and sick patients
- Submit activity reports and manage data (patient files, forms, statistics, databases, etc.)
- Plan training for staff and conduct evaluations, supervision, etc.
PROFILE REQUIREMENTS
- Compliance with essential requirements for all potential candidates
- Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine or equivalent
- Experience managing an emergency department (patient flow, triage, teamwork approach to patient resuscitation), paediatric emergencies, trauma patients (resuscitation, multiple injuries, multiple patients concurrently, fracture reduction/splinting, etc.), mass casualty incidents, patients in shock and applicable use of point-of-care ultrasound
- Ability to supervise and lead the emergency department
- Available for assignment for three to six months
- Current practising certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
- Willingness to abide by Médecins Sans Frontières medical protocols
DESIRABLE
- Clinical experience in the following areas; paediatrics, anaesthetics, critical care, obstetrics/gynaecology, minor surgery
- Clinical experience or training in mass casualty management