264331 General Medicine Physician

Registration or licensing is required.

Paediatricians are excluded from this occupation. Paediatricians are included in Occupation 264343 Paediatrician.

This occupation has a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.

Australia

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

New Zealand

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

• Undertakes comprehensive systematic assessment of a patient's 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