General Practitioners and Resident Medical Officers

Key Tasks

• •Conducting examinations and questioning patients to determine the nature of disorders and illnesses, and recording patients' medical information
• •Ordering laboratory tests, x-rays and other diagnostic procedures, and interpreting findings to assist in diagnosis
• •Providing overall care for patients, and prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other remedial measures
• •Monitoring patients' progress and response to treatment
• •Advising on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention and treatment of disease and disorders
• •Referring patients to, and exchanging medical information with, specialist medical practitioners
• •Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities
• •Arranging the admission of patients to hospitals

Employment Projections to 2034