Point of Care Ultrasound Advisor W/M
Médecins Sans Frontières · Paris, Île-De-France, FR
Médecins Sans Frontières, international medical humanitarian association founded in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threaten...
Job description
Médecins Sans Frontières, international medical humanitarian association founded in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threatened: mainly in the event of armed conflict, but also epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters or exclusion from healthcare. The French section is present in around thirty countries . The advisor helps shape medical and operational policies and strategy by contributing expertise in their specialty and providing support for their implementation. General context: The vision of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) integration in MSF is to ensure that clinicians, both locally hired and international mobile staff, have the knowledge, guidance, and access to proper and selective use of this diagnostic tool as part of the comprehensive management of patients, in remote and low-resource settings. There are currently POCUS Regional Managers in DRC, Yemen, Bangladesh, CAR, and South Sudan – who work intersectionally to cover POCUS needs for those regions. Following the POCUS TIC, which focused on the expansion, scale-up, and integration of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) into MSF operations - particularly by engaging national clinical staff -...