CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST

General Requirements

• Board Certified / Unencumbered License or registration from home country
• Minimum Post Graduate Specialist Degree in Internal Medicine/Neurology
• Minimum 5 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities
• Additional Fellowship/ Boards preferred
• Adaptable and able to work in a multicultural team
• Excellent communication skills and proficiency in English

Job Specification

• Respond to patients medical problems by reviewing their history, physical examination and investigations, reaching to a probable diagnosis, appropriate evidence based treatment, counseling and referral where necessary
• Identify and treat major neurological system diseases and disorders such as central nervous system infection, cranio-spinal trauma, dementia, and stroke
• Perform or interpret the outcomes of procedures or diagnostic tests such as lumbar punctures, electroencephalography, electromyography, and nerve conduction velocity tests and other investigations performed in the neuro-physiology lab
• Interpret the results of neuroimaging studies such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans
• Prescribe or administer medications, such as anti-epileptic drugs, and monitor patients for behavioural and cognitive side effects
• Evaluate patient through questions, examinations, memory tests, or movement activities.
• Set patient goals and discuss a treatment plan
• Maintaining detailed notes of appointments with patients, including comments, tests and/or treatments prescribed, and test results.