General Medicine Physician

Description

Investigates and diagnoses internal human disorders and diseases, and administers treatment for adults.

Description

Investigate, diagnose and treat complex medical conditions chiefly concerning internal human disorders and diseases using specialist testing, diagnostic and medical techniques, and provide medical input into managing public health issues and infectious disease outbreaks and control measures.

Tasks include

• Undertakes comprehensive systematic assessment of patients' problems and needs, both biomedical and psychosocial
• Requests laboratory tests, imaging and other diagnostic procedures, and interprets findings to assist diagnosis
• Assesses functional, psychological and comorbidity factors to make informed diagnoses
• Creates management plans that recognise treatment interactions with multisystem diseases and comorbidities
• Prescribes medication and treatment for adult patients
• Manages complex, chronic and multisystem disorders in adult patients
• Undertakes expert diagnostics to assess and diagnose clinical problems in their entirety
• Provides and coordinates integrated patient care with the assistance of multidisciplinary teams to optimise health outcomes