Family Physician & Primary Care Clinical Service

Position Overview

Role: Family Physician (General Practitioner)
Organization: Qeshlaq Rural Health Center, Abyek, Qazvin, Iran
Period: October 2024 – July 2025
Population Served: 7,500+ residents across 17 rural villages and 5 satellite health centers
Licensure: Registered Physician, Medical Council of Iran (IRIMC)

🩺 Clinical Responsibilities & Panel Management

As the primary physician for a rural population of over 7,500 individuals, I provided comprehensive primary, preventive, emergency, and chronic disease care:

• Comprehensive Outpatient Triage & Care: Managed high-volume daily outpatient clinics, diagnosing and treating acute illnesses, infectious diseases, pediatric conditions, and geriatric syndromes.
• Chronic Disease Registries: Managed active clinical registries for hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and asthma, adjusting pharmacotherapy and lifestyle protocols to achieve target clinical benchmarks.
• Maternal, Prenatal & Adolescent Health: Conducted routine prenatal screenings, high-risk pregnancy monitoring, growth and development tracking, and pediatric immunization schedules.
• Mental & Behavioral Health Integration: Provided primary psychiatric evaluation and pharmacological management for depression, anxiety, and stress disorders in underserved rural communities.

💻 Health Informatics & EHR Operations in Frontline Practice

• National EHR Operations: Utilized the Iranian national Electronic Health Record system (SIB) for coding diagnoses (ICD-10), managing e-prescriptions, ordering laboratory investigations, and coordinating specialist referrals.
• Real-World Health Data Insights: Navigated the operational challenges of EHR data entry, coding ambiguity, and clinical workflow friction in high-throughput settings. This frontline experience directly drives my current PhD research on trustworthy clinical AI, FHIR data segmentation, and evidence-grounded clinical decision support.

🚑 Emergency Response & Escalation Pathways

• Acute Medical Emergency Management: Served as first responder for acute trauma, cardiac arrests, acute coronary syndromes, severe asthma exacerbations, and pediatric emergencies in rural satellite posts.
• Clinical Escalation Protocols: Established rapid stabilization protocols and coordinated emergency ambulance transport to tertiary referral hospitals in Qazvin and Tehran.