Physician / Family Practice / Pennsylvania / Permanent / Loan Repayment Job

Immdiate need for a Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Physician to join a well established Community Health group. Lets Discuss

PATIENT CARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Participates in continuing education as required for professional license maintenance.

Coordinates with patients, providers, hospitals, and outside organizations regarding patient

care issues.

Participates in peer review by performing chart review and working with the quality

improvement committee to develop clinical assessment tools, etc.

Provides quality comprehensive primary care for a diverse population of at-risk patients,

particularly the LGBT community. Provides direct patient care in a full-time position, including,

if needed, evening work; other clinical administrative duties such as meetings, quality

assurance, follow-up on test results, and completion of patient forms.

Provides comprehensive follow-up of laboratory tests including notification of patients of all

results according to our Center guidelines, and to provide appropriate

follow-up of all abnormal results following the highest standards of medical care.

Provides education to patients on health promotion and disease prevention.

Writes and refills prescriptions.

Makes medically necessary patient referrals to specialists and for hospitalization or

recuperative care, or other appropriate care such as drug or alcohol detoxification. Provides

appropriate information to facilitate continuity of care.

Provides urgent and emergency care as required in the course of offering primary medical care.

Provides, with other physician staff members, continuous physician coverage, while on-site or

by telephone.

Prepares accurate correspondence, reports, and technical documentation as required for

communication, recordkeeping, and / or reporting.

Records all patient information timely using Electronic Medical Records, in accordance with the

guidelines and standards of our Center.

Reviews and authorizes nurse's notes and documentation required for billing purposes.

Provides our support staff with adequate physician leadership.

Serves as physician supervisor for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, ensuring the

highest quality clinical care for patients co-managed.

Helps educate peers and other clinic staff by providing talks in areas of interest and expertise.

Participates in the teaching of medical students and residents and acts as a role model and

mentor for students, residents and fellows as indicated.

Responds to Behavioral Health and Case Management requests.

Attends and actively participates in department meetings, general staff meetings, quality

assurance meetings, and other meetings, as required.

Performs any other reasonable and appropriate duties at the request of the CMO.

MD DO Primary Care Physician Medical Doctor Loan Repayment Full time / Benefited