The Resident Medical Officer (RMO) is responsible for providing round-the-clock medical care to inpatients, emergency patients, and patients under observation. The RMO performs initial patient assessment, stabilizes emergency cases, coordinates with consultants, maintains accurate medical records, and ensures adherence to hospital clinical protocols, NABH standards, patient safety goals, and ethical medical practices.
Key Responsibilities
1. Patient Care
- Assess and examine patients in OPD, IPD, Emergency, and ICU (as assigned).
- Provide immediate medical management and stabilization of emergency cases.
- Monitor admitted patients and record clinical progress.
- Prescribe treatment within the scope of hospital policies and under consultant supervision where applicable.
- Ensure continuity of patient care during duty shifts.
2. Emergency Services
- Attend all medical and surgical emergencies.
- Perform Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as required.
- Stabilize critically ill patients before referral or consultant intervention.
- Coordinate emergency admissions and referrals.
3. Consultant Coordination
- Inform consultants promptly about patient condition changes.
- Assist consultants during patient examination, procedures, and rounds.
- Implement consultant treatment plans.
- Maintain effective communication with all specialties.
4. Clinical Documentation
- Maintain complete and accurate medical records.
- Document history, examination findings, diagnosis, treatment, progress notes, consent, discharge summaries, and death summaries (where applicable).
- Ensure timely and legible documentation in the Hospital Information System (HIS).