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Background

Cure Hospital is primarily a teaching hospital with services in family medicine, internal medicine, paediatrics, OBGYN, pathology, general surgery, plastic surgery and orthopaedics. The paediatric component of Cure Hospital provides care and consultation services for all children treated at the Hospital or the Family Health Centre as inpatients or outpatients whether routinely or in an emergency situation.

Cure Hospital runs a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). These services need the leadership of an experienced paediatrician.

An important function of the Head of Paediatrics is his/her commitment to training others. The MOPH has recognised a 3-year family medicine residency training program and it is the job of the paediatric department to ensure that by the end of these 3-years, all residents are fully competent in the field of paediatrics.

 Purpose:

The Head of Paediatrics will be responsible for establishing and maintaining good evidence-based, standards of care for patients, both public and private. He/she will be responsible to train and teach the principles of paediatric and neonatal care along with the necesary techniques to doctors training at Cure Hospital and to oversee the practice of paediatrics by these doctors.

The Paediatrician is also responsible for continuing the improvement in quality of care, education and administration of the department. The Paediatrician will ensure that the paediatric staff provide a quality service and follow any National Guidelines that apply to new-born/ paediatric services in Afghanistan.

• General Responsibilities:

1. To oversee the morning report of the ENT service and to ensure that it is meeting the goals of teaching residents, to organize patient presentations, synthesize data and formulate differentials.
2. Together with the residents to be responsible for daily patient care on the wards.  This includes seeing all new patients with the residents within 24 hours of their admission (and other patients as needed), discussing the patient’s condition and management, ensuring good recording in the patient’s records and good communication with the patients, patient’s relatives and medical staff.
3. To be available for ENT consultations requested by other specialties and to know when to refer ENT patients to other specialties for consultation.
4. To train the family medicine doctors during the ward rounds and by precepting in OPD. Training will also include giving lectures and organising tutorials and case presentations.
5. To work together with the Head of the Family Medicine Training Program to ensure that the resident’s receive thorough and balanced training in ENT during their 3 years program.  
6. To bring to the Medical Director attention problems that impact patient care.

• Specific Responsibilities:
  1. Treating conditions of the ears, upper pharynx, and oral cavity, larynx, nose, face, and neck.
  2. Treating nosebleeds, tonsillectomies, adenoidectomies, infected mastoids, and sinusitis.
  3. Assisting patients with a limited or altered sense of smell.
  4. Treating patients with tumors in the head or neck or patients with a defect in the ear, nose, or throat.
  5. Perform out-patient procedures and to manage an office-based procedure practice
  6. Manage all post operative care (office-based procedures)
  7. To maintain a logbook of all procedures and complications
  8. Collaborating with other medical practitioners.