Job Description

• Conducting examinations and questioning patients to determine the nature of disorders and illnesses, and recording patients' medical information
• Ordering laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures, and interpreting findings to assist in diagnosis
• Providing overall care for patients, and prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other remedial measures
• Monitoring patients' progress and response to treatment
• Advising on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention and treatment of disease and disorders
• Referring patients to, and exchanging medical information with, specialist Medical Practitioners
• Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities
• Arranging the admission of patients to hospitals