Medical doctor job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Medical doctor in details. A complete job description concludes Medical doctor key duties/responsibilities, Medical doctor job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Medical doctor duties:

1.    Communicate accurate and pertinent information with patient care providers and other members of the care delivery team to facilitate effective and efficient patient care.

2.    Prepare medical record entries as required by facility policies, medical staff by-laws and regulatory authorities.

3.    Participate in medical staff/hospital committees as appropriate.

4.    Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, staff and the public.

5.    Ability to demonstrate effective time management, office and departmental organization, exercising good judgment, problem solving and decision-making skills.

6.    Ability to work effectively under pressure and to use discretion with confidential data that may impact staff and operation of the facility.

7.    Facilitate patient education and maintain positive patient relations.

II. List of Medical doctor qualifications

1.    Medical Degree from an accredited medical school is required.

2.    Must have successfully completed a residency program. .

3.    Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.

4.    Adheres to and exhibits our core values

5.    Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.

6.    Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members of the human community

7.    Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit, virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.

8.    Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.

9.    Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines.

10.  Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.

11.  Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader health care community.

12.  Must have Family Practice and wound care experience.
 

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.