Turkey: 15-833: Consultant - Clinical Guidelines

Essential Job Duties/Scope of Work:

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

The ongoing Syrian conflict has created a complex humanitarian emergency, accompanied by an emergence of all kinds of infectious disease cases and threats due to massive population displacements and collapse of the health care and public health systems in the country. Outbreaks of Polio, Measles, Typhoid Fever, Hepatitis A and E, Leishmaniasis, Tuberculosis etc have been confirmed while high number of cases of all kinds of infectious diseases common in humanitarian emergencies are also reported. Absence of laboratory confirmation facilities makes it very difficult and challenging to confirm the diagnosis of the reported cases and hence diagnoses are mostly made on clinical basis by the physicians. However there are no standardized uniform clinical diagnosis and management guidelines available to be used by the physicians with most of them witnessing this kind of medical emergency for the first time in their lives hence further need to be provided with and trained on standardized infectious and communicable diseases case management protocols in the absence of any opportunity for continued medical education when there are limited number of physicians available and doctors from various specialties have to deal with infectious disease cases on daily basis.

JOB SUMMARY

The Consultant will work to develop clinical guidelines with the following tasks:

1. Conduct desk review of the previous work in infectious and communicable diseases
2. Through desk review and partners consultation identify previous available materials for communicable diseases case management protocols
3. Through desk review and consultation identify priority diseases for the development of case management protocols
4. Develop or adapt communicable disease case management protocol guidelines
5. Present developed case management protocols to Health Cluster and partners and incorporate feedback
6. Develop a training based on case management protocols and conduct a Training of Trainers
7. Train training participants on the delivery of ToT
8. Develop simple and easy to follow disease protocol charts to be provided to the health facilities
9. Adhere to IMC Code of Conduct and internationally accepted humanitarian principles

The Consultant will work for a total of 48 days with the following schedule as follows:

KEY DELIVERABLES

7 days: Desk review and research of communicable disease protocols such as WHO or regional protocols

7 days: Consult with Interim Ministry of Health, ACU, Local and International NGOs as well as physicians in IMC clinics

22 days: Develop the case diagnosis and management guidelines and charts for health facilities

9 days: Conduct a ToT on case diagnosis and management guidelines and charts

Final Day: Submiton and acceptance of final report including all finalized, polished documents

Qualifications:

1. Must be a Medical Doctor with post-graduation in infectious diseases/relevant specialty
2. Must have atleast 5 years of clinical experience in diagnosis and management of infectious diseases
3. Must have previous documented experience in development of infectious diseases case management protocols
4. Must have experience in conducting ToTs
5. Must have experience of working with a humanitarian organization in emergencies
6. Must have the flexibility and ability to work effectively with various personalities and cultures
7. Experience of working in Middle East and Arabic language will be highly preferred
8. Must be experienced in use of MS Office

To officially begin the application process, qualified candidates please go to our career page http://careers.internationalmedicalcorps.org/careers.aspx , noting where you noticed the position you are applying for and complete the online employment application form.