About this role
Other Specialist Physicians includes jobs like Clinical Allergist, Clinical Geneticist, Clinical Immunologist, Clinical Pharmacologist, Geriatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician, Occupational Medicine Physician, Palliative Medicine Physician, Public Health Physician, Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, Sexual Health Physician, and Sleep Medicine Physician.
What you might do day-to-day in this job
Typical tasks for an Other Specialist Physician include:
- examines patients to determine the nature and extent of problems after referral from general medical practitioners and other medical specialists, and undertakes laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures
- analyses test results and other medical information to make diagnoses
- prescribes and administers drugs, as well as remedial and therapeutic treatment and procedures
- records medical information and data
- reports specified contagious and notifiable diseases to government health and immigration authorities
- may admit or refer patients to hospitals
- may consult other medical specialists.