Job Description

A Clinical Microbiologist position is available at KK Women\'s and Children\'s Hospital (KKH) in Singapore. KKH is an 830-bed tertiary-level care hospital that provides obstetric, gynaecology, neonatology and paediatric services. It is part of the SingHealth public healthcare cluster and an academic medical centre. KKH is a teaching hospital for Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.The Clinical Microbiologist will provide diagnostic and consultative clinical microbiology services to the hospital and participate in teaching, research, quality improvement and administrative activities. This ranges from bench-level advice and management of the clinical microbiology service, quality control of the laboratory to communication of critical microbiology results, antimicrobial treatment advice and other consultative services to staff of all clinical disciplines. There is regular interaction with the hospital\'s infectious diseases service and the infection control unit and close collaboration with the other laboratory disciplines.You should have a basic medical degree recognized by Singapore Medical Council ( ) and a specialist qualification in Pathology (Microbiology), e.g. FRCPath or FRCPA.Informal enquiries can be directed to A/Prof Kenneth Chang, Head of Department ( ) or to A/Prof Matthias Maiwald, Senior Consultant Microbiologist ( ) or by clicking Apply Now.Company

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