<ul><li>Monitoring and providing general care to patients on hospital wards and in outpatient clinics.</li><li>Admitting patients requiring special care, followed by investigations and treatment</li><li>Examining and talking to patients to diagnose their medical conditions</li><li>Carrying out specific procedures, e.g. performing operations and specialist investigations</li><li>Making notes and preparing paperwork, both as a legal record of treatment and for the benefit of other healthcare professionals</li><li>Working with other doctors as part of a team, either in the same department or within other specialties</li><li>Liaising with other medical and non-medical staff in the hospital to ensure quality treatment</li><li>Promoting health education, teaching and supervising junior doctors and medical students</li></ul>

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