JUNIOR DOCTORS

The following are the duties of Junior doctors in hospitals. Junior otherwise called Medical Officers form the basal layer of the medical team in hospitals next to nurses.

1. They attend all casualty calls. Treat both out-patients and patients coming for admission. They usually treat simple cases by themselves and refer tricky or complicated cases to the same hospital consultant the next day.
2. They go for ward rounds daily. Attend ward patients before the consultant, make note of the necessary changes in symptoms,blood reports and treatment.
3. They attend all in-patient emergency calls before the consultant arrives.
4. They sign claim and reimbursement documents.
5. They certify death and issue certificates.
6. Interested Junior Doctor attend operation theater procedures and assist surgeons.
7. Usually in big hospitals Junior Doctors work in three shifts (8hours duty). In small hospitals they work in two shifts of 12 hours each.
8. They usually communicate with the consultants and are supposed to spend more time with the patient.
9. These are the usual duties of Junior Doctors in Indian multiplicity hospitals.