264331 General Medicine Physician

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Paediatricians are excluded from this occupation. General paediatricians are included in Occupation 264343 Paediatrician. Physicians with a specialist paediatric role are included in the specialist physician occupation within Unit Group 2643 Physicians.

• Undertakes comprehensive systematic assessment of patients' problems and needs, both biomedical and psychosocial
• Requests laboratory tests, imaging and other diagnostic procedures, and interprets findings to assist diagnosis
• Assesses functional, psychological and comorbidity factors to make informed diagnoses
• Creates management plans that recognise treatment interactions with multisystem diseases and comorbidities
• Prescribes medication and treatment for adult patients
• Manages complex, chronic and multisystem disorders in adult patients
• Undertakes expert diagnostics to assess and diagnose clinical problems in their entirety
• Provides and coordinates integrated patient care with the assistance of multidisciplinary teams to optimise health outcomes