Job Openings CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST

About the job 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.