Dr Mohd Azib Bin Othaman graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1997 and did his housemanship in Hospital Kuala Lumpur from 1997 to 1998. He then continued his career as Medical Officer in Hospital Seremban (Hospital Tuanku Jaafar Seremban) for 2 years before continuing his studies in Masters in Anaesthesiology at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He completed his programme in 2004 and was gazetted in the same year as Anaesthesiologist at Hospital Tuanku Ampuan Najihah(HTAN) Kuala Pilah.
He served there for 4 years till 2008. As the only Anaesthesiologist in HTAN, he was involved in almost all elective and emergency surgeries, where about 2000 to 2500 cases per year which included critically ill patients who underwent surgeries. He was also in charge of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and managed all critically ill patients who were admitted to the ICU. He helped to upgrade the services of operation theatres at ICU in HTAN and also established the Emergency Operation Theatre in the Emergency Department, High Dependency Ward and Acute Pain Services.
He was also actively involved in the establishing the Day Care Surgery in HTJS. Other than that, he was also the facilitator for several training programmes in HTJS such as facilitator for Safe Surgery Save Life Initiatives, Ventilator Care Team and Acute Pain Service.
In 2008, he was posted to Hospital Tuanku Jaafar Seremban. Being amongst the most Senior Anaesthesiologist Consultants, he was involved in many complicated surgeries especially with difficult airway management and critically ill patients’ management in ICU, HDW and CCU. He was involved in all types of major surgeries in HTJS such as Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Surgeries, Spine Surgeries, Orthopaedic Implant Surgeries, Electives and Emergency Paediatric Surgeries, Emergency Trauma Surgeries (orthopaedic, intra-abdominal injuries, craniotomy for head injuries), complicated Obstetric Surgery and many others.
