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JOHN STEVEN BUYUYA

Dar Es Salaam

Summary

Medical doctor with the 5 years of experience working with the Médecins sans Frontières in the field. I bring extensive years of experience in medical practice, as well as strong managerial skills especially in humanitarian settings. I have extensive skills and competency to handle critical cases in ICUs and emergency room, able to handle multiple tasks, with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Medical activity manager

Médecins sans Frontières
07.2022 - Current
  • Prepare monthly roster and daily work allocation to the team under my supervision. (1 expat pediatrician, 1 expat medical doctor, 5 medical doctors, 15 clinical officers, 15 medical translators and 3 lay counsellors).
  • Attends/organizes regular meetings with partners, authorities and community key members so as to improve quality of care delivery in hospital.
  • Prepare and update objectives for each staff under my supervision at least once per year.
  • Do performance evaluation to the team under my supervision and identify area of improvements to each team member.
  • Prepare monthly medical situation report and provide in-depth analysis of hospital medical situation.
  • Participates in preparation of project’s proposals on yearly plan of action and mid-year review.
  • Organizes mortality and morbidity review meetings, identify gaps, and ensure lesson learnt are regularly communicated to the medical team.
  • Regularly performs hospital quality of care assessments, such as rational prescription analysis, clinician consultation analysis, patient files analysis and identify various gaps as well as set recommendations to the team on what and how to improve.
  • Participates and support team in the ward rounds, to attend complicated cases in different hospital unit (maternity, adult ward, pediatrics, and neonatology) for some of days of the week.
  • Treat patients presenting with various disease conditions according to MSF guidelines.
  • Prepare staff treatment SOP to ensure staffs and expats receive treatment on time.
  • Work with the health promotion team and community key leaders on community intervention for some of the harmful practices such as excessive local herbal usage that contributes to poor community health seeking behaviors.
  • Prepared regular trainings to the team on topics such as management of septick shock, malaria, fracture management, cellulitis, malnutrition, severe pneumonia.
  • Wrote the handover chronic disease capitalization report.

Doctor in paed/neonatology/emergency room

Médecins San Frontiers
07.2018 - 07.2022
  • Managing critical patients in emergency room, pediatrics ICU, neonatology ICU and in general pediatrics.
  • Apply my broad medical knowledge to diagnose and prevent various diseases and their complications.
  • Follow up on the evolution of admitted patients through review of treatments provided and regular clinical assessments.
  • Assess patient improvement and discharge home with the necessary medications and follow up schedule.
  • Refer patient on time to another facility for further management.
  • Provide bedside coaching to clinical officers and nurses on proper patient handling and care, physical examination etc.
  • Upload and follow up challenging cases on telemedicine platform and adjust patient’s management according to the provided recommendations.
  • Identify knowledge gaps in the team and provide refresher trainings for medical team in pediatrics and neonatology.
  • Updates the emergency trolley for emergency room and ensure availability of the emergency drugs and equipments.
  • Performing emergency procedures like active resuscitation, fracture reduction and immobilization, suturing cut wounds, burn wounds emergency, chest tube insertion and needle decompression, suprapubic catheterization with appropriate pain control.
  • Confidently review the x rays, for skull, chest, abdomen and provide appropriate management according to the findings.
  • Perform FAST, EFAST and confidently interpret findings.
  • Some of days provide technical support to maternity and gynecology, adult ward as assigned by my supervisors on case management, referral criteria.
  • Provide consultation to the sickle cell patients in sickle cell disease clinic for some of the days as assigned by my supervisor.
  • Prepare rosters for clinical officers in pediatrics and neonatology.

Medical doctor

Tumaini general hospital
12.2017 - 06.2018
  • Attending outpatient and inpatient cases, to carry out medical examinations, diagnose and treat different illnesses
  • Ensure on time referral and appropriate follow-up care for patients
  • Participate in clinical governance via audit and significant events such as maternal death review, perinatal death review.
  • Confidently know how to perform minor procedures like POP and backslab application to immobilize and support injured limb, chest tube insertion for traumatic chest injury, needle decompression to release tension pneumothorax, cleaning, and dressing of burn wounds.
  • Able to perform immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation in case of emergencies, starting intravenous line and appropriate fluid administration etc.
  • Attend patients in emergency room following motor traffic accidents. Ensure proper evacuation and transport from site of accident to the hospital.

Intern medical doctor

Mbeya Zonal Regional Referral Hospital
11.2016 - 11.2017
  • Attending cases at emergency department such as cut wounds, fractures, blunt and penetrating traumas, burn cases etc.
  • Passing ward rounds and prepare treatment and follow up plan for inpatients and discharged patients.
  • Inserting an IV line and take sample for various investigations.
  • Preparing patients for minor and major procedures.
  • Assisting and performs various major procedures such as cesarean sections, laparotomy etc.
  • Attending various educational and clinical meetings
  • Attending at outpatient clinics like hypertension clinics, diabetes clinics, RCH clinics, HIV/AIDS clinics, pediatric clinics, surgical clinics etc. as assigned by my supervisor.
  • Attends cases of accidental exposure of blood.

Education

Doctor of Medicine - Medical

Saint Francis University College
11.2016

Skills

  • Microsoft Office package: Microsoft Word, Excel, power-point
  • Staff recruitment
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Statistical operation: DHIS 2
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Active Listening
  • Planning and Coordination
  • Report writing and analysis
  • Activity planning and management
  • Leadership
  • Self-awareness and resilience
  • Team training and coaching

Certification

  • Murburg emergency preparedness training 05/2023–05/2023 Médecins San Frontières - Tanzania-Nduta refugees’ camp Epidemiology, signs and symptoms, case triaging and admission criteria, Patient flow, infection prevention and control, clinical case management, Designing isolation center, discharge criteria, donning and doffing of PPE.
  • Certificate of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian action and Quality management of Humanitarian Projects, University of Geneva 2022 – 2023 humanitarian leadership and people management, context analysis, assessing needs and capacity, planning projects and its monitoring system, programming activities and resources, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Point of care ultrasound 02/2020 – 03/2020 Médecins San Frontières - Tanzania-Nduta refugees’ camp knobology, EFAST, cardiopulmonary ultrasound, ultrasound to long bone fractures and soft tissues, interventional ultrasound (thoracentesis, paracentesis).
  • Workshop on Ebola 04/2020 – 04/2020 Médecins sans Frontières - Nduta-Refugees camp Workshop on Ebola IPC, safety measures, wearing PPE and patient care and management.
  • Paediatric training 01/2020 – 01/2020 Médecins san Frontières - Nduta refugees camp-Tanzania triage and emergency stabilization, prioritization within red and yellow cases, iv fluid management, treatment of shock in malnourished and non-malnourished children, malnutrition protocol under 6 months and 6-59 months, basic neonatology, sepsis management, palliative care approach in pediatrics and neonatology.
  • Newborn care training 04/2019 – 04/2019 Médecins Sans Frontières - Stockholm- Sweden help baby breath and advanced resuscitation, routine newborn care, danger signs, clinical exam, gestational age estimation, prematurity, nutrition, respiration pathologies, apnea, asphyxia, convulsions, neonatal infection, infection and prevention control, limitation of care, pain management, kangaroo mother care.
  • Paediatric days conference and workshop, 04/2019 – 04/2019 Médecins Sans Frontières - Stockholm Sweden. Respiratory support in neonates and children, management of malnutrition under 6 months, Child protection in disaster and humanitarian settings, paediatric non-communicable disease in humanitarian settings.
  • Certificate of internship 11/2016 – 11/2016 ministry of health - Tanzania
  • Cert of HIV counselling & antiretroviral therapy 11/2016 – 11/2016 ministry of health Tanzania

Language

Swahili, English

References

Hamis, Kamungu, Medical activity manager, kamunguh@gmail.com, +255 763 31 2539, Médecins Sans Frontiers, Yemen

Accomplishments

  • In 2023 May proposes and work with the other hospital units(logistics, nursing team, health promotion team) to implement malaria mass testing and treatment program to reduce burden of malaria in Nduta refugees camp.
  • In 2023 February, worked together with the various hospital units(logistics, HR, nursing) to re-implement the mass casualty incident system.

Timeline

Medical activity manager

Médecins sans Frontières
07.2022 - Current

Doctor in paed/neonatology/emergency room

Médecins San Frontiers
07.2018 - 07.2022

Medical doctor

Tumaini general hospital
12.2017 - 06.2018

Intern medical doctor

Mbeya Zonal Regional Referral Hospital
11.2016 - 11.2017

Doctor of Medicine - Medical

Saint Francis University College

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