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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

Medical

  • Average Salary

    RM2800 - RM 4500

  • Career Trends

  • Compability

What is Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians?

Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2800 - RM 4500

Example of a Job Position

Doctor of Medicine / Physical Medicine and PM & R Rehabilitation Specialist
Physiatrist
Pediatric Physiatris
Physical Medicine and Doctor Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Doctor

Task

? Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes ? Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition ? Assess characteristics of patients' pain such as intensity, location, and duration using standardized clinical measures ? Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions ? Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions such as medication and spinal injections

Knowledge

Education and Training

Knowledge of principles and methods in designing curriculum, training, teaching, and instruction for individuals and groups, as well as measuring the effects of training.

Psychology

Knowledge of human performance and behavior; differences in individual abilities, personalities and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Customer and Personal Services

Knowledge of principles and processes to provide services for customers and personal. This includes assessing customer needs, meeting service quality standards, and evaluating customer satisfaction.

Therapy and Counseling

Knowledge of principles, methods and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunction, as well as providing career guidance.

Medical Science and Dentistry

Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human wounds, diseases, and deformities. These include symptoms, alternative treatments, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health measures

Skills

Active Learning

Understand the implications of new information for basic decision making and problem solving now and in the future.

Active Listening

Give full attention to the words of others, set aside time to understand the points presented, ask questions appropriately, and not interrupt at the wrong time

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Social Sensitivity

Realizing the reactions of others, then understanding why they acted like that.

Capability

  • 1

    Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas when speaking, so that others can understand what is being conveyed

  • 2

    Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to certain problems in order to produce reasonable answers.

  • 3

    Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules and conclusions (including finding relationships between seemingly unconnected events).

  • 4

    Oral Understanding - The ability to listen and understand information and ideas conveyed through words and oral sentences

  • 5

    Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or maybe wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only knowing if there is a problem.

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