Migration Health and AVRR Physician

The Migration Health and AVRR Physician will conduct migration health assessments and provide medical support for AVRR cases, ensuring clinical assessments, referrals, fitness-to-travel decisions, and medical travel arrangements comply with IOM and donor requirements. The role involves coordination with health facilities and counterparts to support safe travel and continuity of care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct migration health assessments, including medical history, physical examination and review of available clinical records.
• Arrange or review required investigations, including laboratory testing, imaging and other examinations, according to applicable programme and destination-country requirements.
• Identify health conditions requiring treatment, referral, stabilization or follow-up, and coordinate care with relevant health facilities and treating physicians.
• Support vaccination, tuberculosis management, pre-departure medical procedures and other health interventions in accordance with applicable protocols.
• Ensure correct identification of migrants and complete, accurate and timely medical documentation, certification and data entry in relevant IOM systems.
• Review AVRR cases with known or suspected medical conditions and assess decision-making capacity, fitness to travel and medical feasibility of return, as applicable.
• Recommend additional assessment or stabilization when the available information is insufficient to confirm safe travel.
• Determine required medical travel conditions, such as medical or non-medical escort, wheelchair, additional seats, stretcher, oxygen, medications, medical supplies or family support.
• Review proposed itineraries from a medical perspective and complete airline medical forms, including MEDA or MEDIF, when required.
• Coordinate with AVRR, Operations, Migration Health and relevant counterparts in the country of return to support safe travel and continuity of care after arrival.
• Brief medical escorts on the case and travel management plan, coordinate required escort supplies, and review escort reports and travel-related incidents.
• Apply infection prevention and control, patient safety, confidentiality, informed consent and ethical standards throughout service delivery.
• Contribute to quality assurance through case review, record checks, data analysis, incident follow-up and implementation of applicable SOPs.
• Maintain case records and relevant statistics, and prepare routine or ad hoc reports requested by the supervisor.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• University degree in Medicine from an accredited academic institution.
• Valid licence to practise medicine in the duty-station country is mandatory.
• At least two years of relevant professional clinical experience, preferably in emergency medicine, internal medicine or a multidisciplinary hospital setting.
• Experience conducting medical assessments, preparing medical reports and coordinating referrals or patient care.
• Experience in migration health, humanitarian health, resettlement health or AVRR programming is desirable.
• Experience with fitness-to-travel assessment, medical movement support or continuity-of-care planning is an advantage.
• Good knowledge of clinical medicine, patient safety and infection prevention and control.
• Ability to make sound clinical decisions and clearly document the rationale for recommendations.
• Strong coordination and communication skills, including liaison with health facilities, operations teams and cross-border counterparts.
• Understanding of in-flight physiology or aviation medicine is an advantage.
• Good organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to respond flexibly to operational needs.
• Fluency in English and French is required (oral and written).
• Working knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.

Skills

• Clinical Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Medical Assessments
• Medical Report Preparation
• Patient Care Coordination
• Migration Health
• Humanitarian Health
• Resettlement Health
• AVRR Programming
• Fitness to Travel Assessment
• Medical Movement Support
• Continuity of Care Planning
• Patient Safety
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Clinical Decision-Making
• Health Facility Liaison
• Cross-Border Program Coordination
• Organizational Skills
• Aviation Medicine

Languages

English, French, Arabic