Emergency Medical Doctor

As an Emergency Medicine Doctor, you play a key leadership role in ensuring high‑quality, patient‑centred emergency care. You oversee the full functioning of the Emergency Department, from patient arrival and triage to admission or discharge. You work closely with other hospital services to ensure smooth coordination and optimal medical outcomes. 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES   

  • Manage and organise the Emergency Department by supervising emergency activities and staff, including the establishment and implementation of an effective triage system, as well as mass casualty preparedness, planning and response 
  • Train, mentor and supervise medical staff through theoretical instruction and hands-on bedside teaching, ensuring the progressive and sustainable transfer of skills and responsibilities 
  • Lead and supervise multidisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) patient rounds, implement ICU best practices, promote a teamwork‑based approach to patient resuscitation in projects with a basic ICU 
  • Support triage decisions for critical care appropriateness in projects without ICU specialists 
  • Implement quality assurance tools to ensure compliance with MSF standards, policies, guidelines and protocols  
  • Contribute to data collection, analysis, monitoring and reporting   

PROFILE  

  • Medical doctor with completed postgraduate training in an accredited emergency medicine speciality training programme, in a country where emergency medicine is a recognised speciality 
  • Minimum of three years of postgraduate training in emergency medicine and current certification from a recognised certifying body 
  • Experience in managing an emergency department, including patient flow, triage and a teamwork-based approach to patient resuscitation, is an asset 
  • Experience in paediatric emergencies, obstetric and gynaecological emergencies, mass casualty incidents and the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasound is an asset 
  • Experience in trauma care, including trauma team leadership, damage control resuscitation, conservative fracture management and severe burn management, is an asset 
  • Ability to supervise and lead rounds in an inpatient ward and a basic intensive care unit is an asset 
  • Willingness to share knowledge, skills and experience with colleagues 
  • Experience in humanitarian settings or previous work experience with an NGO is an asset 

LANGUAGES 

  • Proficiency in English and French, both spoken and written is mandatory 

  • Good knowledge in Arabic, Portuguese or Spanish is an asset 

COMPETENCIES 

  • Collaborate and communicate clearly; build trust with colleagues   

  • Lead, support, guide, and motivate teams with confidence and empathy 

  • Take initiative, remain solution-oriented, and act proactively 

  • Translate strategic vision and operational realities into clear priorities and actions 

  • Work independently, plan effectively, and organise your and your team’s work properly 

  • Remain resilient and manage stress in challenging situations 

  • Practise cross-cultural awareness and work effectively with diverse teams 

  • Show flexibility by adjusting plans, locations and ways of working in coordination with others when circumstances and priorities change   

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS   

  • Read the MSF principles and commitments outlined here  

  • Availability to work in complex environments and to leave on an assignment without partner/family  

  • A health status compatible with the nature of our activities and operational contexts and compliance with all vaccinations for MSF project assignments