Vacancy title:
Medical officer (2 Positions)

Jobs at:
Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, 10 March 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Background:
The mission of the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is to build capacity of health systems in Africa for the delivery of sustainable, high quality care and prevention of HIV/AIDS and related infectious diseases through training, research, and advanced clinical services. IDI has five operational areas through which it works to achieve its mission: Prevention, Care and Treatment; Training, Research and Laboratory services (provided through a partnership with the Makerere University-John Hopkins University Core Lab) and Outreach.

Project Details:
IDI has received a subcontract from Makerere University Walter Reed Project to implement activities in Uganda of the Joint Mobile Disease Intervention Clinical Capability (JMEDICC) at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital (FPRRH). JMEDICC is a” consortium comprising the US Naval Medical Research Center in partnership with the US Army Medical Research institute of infectious Diseases and the US Department of Defense.

The project aims to develop a research platform to address the knowledge gap of effective clinician management of sepsis and severe infectious diseases in general. The clinical team will be responsible for conducting observational and interventional trials in the management of sepsis. The clinical team will be provided with ongoing advanced training in clinical care and research to enable the team respond to culture outbreaks of infectious diseases including Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) within Fort Portal and surrounding districts. This platform will be used to generate clinical research data to support licensure applications for promising therapeutics for EVD or to provide evidence-based standards of care for improved EVD management.

In order to strengthen support clinical and research capacity at FPRRH, IDI is recruiting as follows:

Job Title: Medical officer (2 Positions)
Duration: 12 months, full time
Responsible to: Study Coordinator

Essential skills & qualities:

• MBCHB or equivalent qualification
  
• Completion of internship
  
• Research experience also an added advantage
  
• Ability to travel within Uganda at short notice

Desirable skills & qualities:

• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice
  
• Ability to communicate well with patients and their
  
• Care-givers
  
• Excellent organizational skills and flexibility, including the ability to manage and move between multiple sites
  
• Flexibility to work long hours which may occasionally extend beyond normal working hours in order to complete critical tasks.
  
• Ability to speak local language

Role & Responsibilities

• Implement the research protocol at FPRRH research site by working with a multi-disciplinary study team which will include but is not limited to; physician, medical officers, clinical officers, study nurses and a laboratory runner.
  
• Ensure that clinical research is conducted in the highest ethical and academic standards as stipulated in the research protocol.
  
• Consent, enroll and follow up research patients.
  
• Administer study questionnaires to all enrolled research patients.
  
• Carry out research-related investigations on study patients
  
• Follow-up research patients, review patient files and labs to ensure completeness and continuity of care
  
• Provide medical care for study participants and routine care for FPFtFtH patients
  
• Refer patients for additional assessment as appropriate
  
• Ensure that the research patient data base is regularly and continuously updated and patient data is sent by data fax to IDIL in Kampala on a regular basis
  
• Participate in and conduct all relevant Continuous Medical Education and trainings
  
• Liaise with Study Physician in relation to patient management
  
• Attend all study team meetings
  
• Performs any other duties that may be reasonably necessary for carrying out the study protocol as directed by the Study Coordinator

Job application procedure
Qualified and interested persons who wish to apply may hand deliver, an application letter with a detailed CV, naming at least two professional referees, to:

The Manager, Human Resources
Infectious Diseases Institute
P. O. Box 22418, Kampala.
hr@idi.co.ug

Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, 10 March 2017. Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews.

IDI is an equal employment organization and does not solicit for any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.