ACTIVITIES Pre-operative consultations: ▪ provides surgical consultations, ▪ informs the patient about their condition and the surgery proposed, ▪ Obtains the patient's signed agreement to surgery, ▪ Evaluates the risk of operating in collaboration with the anesthetist. Surgery: ▪ Performs emergency surgical procedures in line with MSF protocols, ▪ coordinates surgical activities and takes responsibility for the quality of interventions, ▪ Oversees the rational use of surgical supplies and instruments during procedures, ▪ Draws up a postoperative report following each procedure. . Perform on-call duties to respond to surgical emergencies. Post-operative patient follow-up: ▪ Checks that patients are re-allocated to the appropriate hospital department depending on the different pathologies (infected, non-affected, orthopaedic, burns, etc.). ▪ conducts rounds and follow-up rounds in the surgical and intensive care departments in collaboration with the anesthetist, the operating theater nurse, and the department supervisor. ▪ Ensures the application of MSF protocols (antibiotic therapy, dressing protocols, etc.) and rational medicine use. ▪ Ensures proper pre- and post-operative prescription follow-up in liaison with the anesthetist, ▪ Follows up patients hospitalized in associated departments (gynecology-obstetrics, IPD surgical wards) in collaboration with the healthcare team. Hygiene: ▪ Oversees and monitors his/her colleagues' adherence to hygiene and IPC rules concerning the protection of patients and staff in the operating theater (decontamination, sterilization, etc.). ▪ Knows the steps to take in the event of accidental exposure to blood (AEB). Data collection: ▪ Collaborates with the anesthetist in the collection of quantitative surgical and anesthetist data, checks the quality of the data encoding, ▪ Participates in drawing up and analyzing morbidity-mortality reports with the anesthetist, the medical advisor, and/or the hospital director or project medical referent. Collaboration with the other departments: ▪ Participates in medical meetings, notably the perioperative morbidity-mortality meeting, ▪ works in close collaboration with the emergency, intensive care, etc. departments, ▪ Provides support to other departments if needed. Management/training: ▪ Provides ongoing guidance and training to the surgical team in line with MSF guidelines and protocols. ▪ can be asked to support training projects (e.g., first aid, MCP drills and simulations, etc.). |