To work as a medical doctor in humanitarian crisis is rewarding and challenging. The core aspects of the role are planning, implementing and evaluating our medical programmes, as well as coaching of other medical personnel.
Medical Doctor role description
Locally hired medical doctors are the ones who provide most of the direct medical care and treatment to our patients. As an internationally recruited medical doctor, your main tasks are: coaching and training locally hired medical staff; planning and implementing medical programmes; ordering drugs and medical material; conducting epidemiological studies; evaluating and reporting medical activities. In general, only a small portion of the work is direct clinical work.
In projects where MSF carries a large responsibility for medical health care of the local population, for instance in refugee camps, the work may be more hands-on. In projects where we support national health authorities and structures, the work is less clinical.