Uchechukwu Gift Okpara
Calgary,AB
Summary
I completed my GPVTS training in August 2022 in the East Kent training program. I worked as a GP salaried position and also locum at different UTCs all over East Kent. I moved to Calgary Alberta in November 2023 and began work as a family physician in April 2024.
I am a keen, enthusiastic patient-centered doctor with a variety of skills including excellent communication skills, superb team playing and excellent problem solving. I also have varied interests including luxury fashion, personal styling and real estate.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Family Medicine Physician
Apex Sky Medical Clinic
04.2024 - Current
Salaried Gp
New Hayesbank Surgery, Ashford
08.2022 - Current
- Salaried Gp responsible for over 2,000 patients
- Duty doctor including urgent and unscheduled care, care home resident care and acute access lists
- Routine patient care including referrals, electronic prescriptions, reviewing investigations and home visits.
- Updating patient records including Docman reports
- End of life planning, best interest meetings and advanced care planning
- Medical reports and legal reports as required
- Currently undergoing NTTP fellowship and candidate for the Next generation GP program
GP registrar
Hamstreet Surgery
04.2021 - 08.2022
- Clinical consultations and patient management
- MEDILEAD leadership program trainee
- Administrative duties including Docman and prescriptions
- Case presentations including safeguarding
- Teaching medical students and junior colleagues
- Completed RCA January 2022
- Supervisor Dr David bridge
GP Registrar
Pilgrims Hospices
04.2021 - 08.2021
- Palliative care SHO
- managed complex end of life patients.
- Daily management of difficult end of life issues including advanced care planning and conversations on dying and death.
- supervisor-Dr Soumen( palliative care consultant)
GPST1 and GPST2 rotations
William Harvey Hospital
08.2019 - 04.2021
- Hospital rotations include
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Covid medicine and Respiratory medicine,
- Acute psychiatry at St Martin's Hospital and
- Community Psychiatry.
- Completed AKT September 2020
Emergency medicine SHO
North West London University NHS Trust
11.2018 - 07.2019
- Worked as an SHO in the Accident and Emergency department handling different acute presentations including drug overdose, intracranial bleed, infectious disease, tachyarrythmias e.t.c
- Completed MSRA January 2019
Senior SHO
Paelon Memorial Clinic
06.2013 - 07.2019
- Senior Medical officer in charge of a team of medical officers
- Daily ward rounds and clinical duties involving all aspects of patient care
- Minor surgical procedures including male circumcisions
- Completed primaries in Public Health- west African college of physicians
Medical SHO
Niger Foundation Hospital
01.2011 - 04.2013
- Part of a team of medical officers
- Involved in all aspects of patient care
- Presented clinical cases on diverse relevant topics
NYSC doctor(FY1 equivalent)
Obafemi Awolowo University Medical Center
09.2010 - 07.2011
- FY1 equivalent
- worked as a junior doctor in the medical department of the University.
- Involved in various aspects of patient care including call duty.
Education
MBBS, distinction in Biochem. SHELL scholarship. - Medicine and Surgery
College of Medicine University of Lagos
LagosCCT - General Practice
Royal College of General Practitioners
United Kingdom 08.2022
CCFP - Family Medicine
College of Family Physicians of Canada
Canada11.2024
Skills
- Leadership - able to lead colleagues and other non medical staff by creating an inclusive environment and utilizing everyone's strengths to achieve a common goal
- Excellence- very thorough approach to any assignment; must get it right first time and everytime
- Multitasking- full time doctor, volunteer worker and entrepreneur
- Multilingual- proficient in English, Can communicate in French
Languages
English
Full Professional
Certification
- BLS
- ACLS
- Safeguarding Adults and Children
- AKT+RCA completed
Education
other
Accomplishments
During my training I served as the trainee representative for 3 consecutive years, assisting my colleagues with different issues to enhance training. I also worked with a charity, innercity missions, to raise money for indigent children in impoverished communities.
Timeline
Family Medicine Physician
Apex Sky Medical Clinic
04.2024 - Current
Salaried Gp
New Hayesbank Surgery, Ashford
08.2022 - Current
GP registrar
Hamstreet Surgery
04.2021 - 08.2022
GP Registrar
Pilgrims Hospices
04.2021 - 08.2021
GPST1 and GPST2 rotations
William Harvey Hospital
08.2019 - 04.2021
Emergency medicine SHO
North West London University NHS Trust
11.2018 - 07.2019
Senior SHO
Paelon Memorial Clinic
06.2013 - 07.2019
Medical SHO
Niger Foundation Hospital
01.2011 - 04.2013
NYSC doctor(FY1 equivalent)
Obafemi Awolowo University Medical Center
09.2010 - 07.2011
CCFP - Family Medicine
College of Family Physicians of Canada
MBBS, distinction in Biochem. SHELL scholarship. - Medicine and Surgery
College of Medicine University of Lagos
CCT - General Practice
Royal College of General Practitioners