Senior Resident

• Interview patients to learn their complaints and family medical histories;
• Conduct examinations and diagnostic tests;
• Analyze test results and discuss treatment options with patients;
• Confer with other medical staff to make diagnoses and design treatment plans;
• Prescribe medication and physical therapy;
• Take vital signs, draw blood, make injections, and administer anesthetics;
• Treat internal diseases, illnesses, injuries, and disorders;
• Provide immunizations and perform minor surgery;
• Help patients manage infections, colds and flu, and chronic ailments;
• Create and maintain patient records, and submit statistical reports to employers and the government;
• Design and administer health programs in hospitals, businesses, schools, and other facilities;
• Conduct research to test drugs and treatment methods;

Receive continuing education in internal medicine.