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Responsibilities:
Specialists in infectious diseases typically treat conditions including:
Less commonly they may also treat conditions including:
We are looking for an Infectious Disease Specialist/Consultant.
Working in infectious diseases combines both the clinical and laboratory skills of making diagnoses with providing effective treatment for a wide range of infections in both acutely and chronically ill patients.
There are four distinct but very much interdependent infection specialties: Infectious Diseases (ID), Medical Microbiology (MM), Medical Virology (MV) and Tropical Medicine (TM).
Responsibilities:
- An increase in the severity of infections, particularly in more frail populations of patients.
- An increase in resistance to antibiotics.
- New infections such as MRSA, Clostridium difficile and Norovirus, can be hospital-acquired.
- A rise in blood-borne virus infections, such as hepatitis b and c and HIV.
- The growing popularity of global travel heightens the need for expertise in the prevention and treatment of travel-related ‘international’ diseases.
Specialists in infectious diseases typically treat conditions including:
- Bone infections.
- HIV.
- Pneumonia.
- Viral hepatitis (inflammation of the liver).
Less commonly they may also treat conditions including:
- Cholera.
- Dengue.
- Diphtheria.
- Dysentery (an intestinal infection).
- Ebola.
- Malaria.
- Meningitis (inflammation of the brain membranes).
- Sepsis (a serious infection causing an exaggerated immune response).
- Tuberculosis.
- Typhoid fever.
- Yellow fever.
Requirement:
- 3+ years experience post qualification.
- Medicine and specialization degree.
- Current state license.
AED 45000 – AED 65000 + Benefits (Tax-free).
